Racism Is Now A Business Model
Many businesses are seriously struggling now. Not the business of shaming white people and telling them how guilty they are of racism simply because they're white.

This is, plain and simple, racism. And it's profitable as hell.

Christopher Rufo writes at City Journal that profiteering race theorists have expanded their footprint to the federal bureaucracy:

Last month, a private diversity consultant, Howard Ross, conducted a training for federal financial agencies called "Difficult Conversations about Race in Troubling Times," which asked white employees at the Treasury Department, the Federal Reserve, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau, the National Credit Union Association, and the Officer of the Comptroller to pledge "allyship amid the George Floyd Tragedy."

According to whistleblower documents, the training begins with the premise that "virtually all White people contribute to racism" and have internalized "fairly consistent narratives about race" that "don't support the dismantling of racist institutions." Therefore, the trainers argue, white federal employees must "struggle to own their racism" and "invest in race-based growth."

"White managers" are asked to create "safe spaces" where black employees can explain "what it means to be Black" and be "seen in their pain." White employees are instructed to "provide unconditional solidarity," remain silent, and "sit in the discomfort" of their own racism. If any conflicts arise, the trainers insist that whites "don't get to decide when someone is being too emotional, too rash, [or] too mean" and cannot protest if a person of color "responds to their oppression in a way [they] don't like."

Ross, who created the training, is a fixture in what can be called the "diversity-industrial complex." Based on a review of federal contract data, since 2006, he has billed the federal government more than $5 million for diversity trainings, seminars, and materials. His biggest year was 2011, when he billed the General Services Administration $3 million for "consulting services" and NASA $500,000 for "power and privilege sexual orientation workshops."

It's somewhat distasteful, though crucial, to disclose that Ross is white. He holds a bachelor's degree in history but has positioned himself as an expert in "neuro-cognitive and social science research," spending the past three decades selling "unconscious bias," "white privilege," and "white fragility." Ironically, though, Ross has used his own privilege to enrich himself at taxpayers' expense. In the language of his own discourse, he has monetized collective black pain to create individual white profit.

There's not business like "show white people they're haters" business.

And it's going on even in the Trump administration.

To what end? Rufo:

This is the ultimate vision of critical race theorists: the creation of a new, radical political consciousness. The benefit is two-fold: advance the cause of critical race theory and create lifetime employment for the consultant class. Ross and others will prosper.