Hysteria. My experience and my contacts trump cherry-picked documents.
I’ve NEVER had a problem with my gender/race in academia.
Now, when I was working in the unbelievably corrupt world of Big Pharma, that was a serious problem. Fortunately, I had a mentor who covered my hinder and let me concentrate on my work.
Your alleged personal experience is irrelevant to the systematic data, for which, I might add, we have very clear causal explanations. Academia is at least as aggressive in AA as fire and police departments and other government institutions in discriminating in favor of favored minorities. Large corporations are about as bad.