Mandatory Diversity Training and the Racist Injustice of Serena Williams’s Multimillion Dollar Endorsements

by David French February 4, 2016 10:39 AM @DavidAFrench

 

Let’s check in on the University of Missouri. Last semester, campus radicals pushed out the president largely because of a few alleged racial incidents that no sentient person believed he caused or could control. Now comes the brave new world of mandatory diversity training — where young students learn all about the oppression inherent in the system. There’s one slight problem with the narrative, however. This isn’t 1950. So the racial injustice is a bit harder to find. Consider this portrait of a diversity training session, painted by the New York Times: Scott N. Brooks, draped in a dapper shawl-collar sweater, looked out on the auditorium of mostly white students in puffy coats and sweats as they silently squirmed at his question. Why, he had asked, does Maria Sharapova, a white Russian tennis player, earn nearly twice as much in endorsements as Serena Williams, an African-American with a much better win-loss record?

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