There’s money to be made from race hustling. It’s a gargantuan constituency of the Demonrat Party, and it’s been going on since the 19th century. They need to keep certain target groups perpetually aggrieved to maintain power.
As Tuskegee University President Booker T. Washington said... “There is another class of coloured people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.”
The “Pay-Me-I’m-A-Victim” game.
What's going on here is that professors don't have much that's new or interesting to say about the books they teach. Race, gender, sexual preference give them something to say. That goes for the New York Times as well.
“...it’s been going on since the 19th century.”
This is a bit off topic, but also on topic if you get my drift.
When I was a kid we had a piano we could bang away on, and some old music books. Boy, if I only had them today, so un-PC. We had a version of The Yellow Rose of Texas that included the word “darkie”, etc.
And lots of Irish songs. Well, one day we were banging out The Wearing O’ the Green, and my grandmother (who was a Catholic from Northern Ireland) came in a started reading us the riot act.
We were like: hey, Grandma, it’s right here in this music book you’ve got in your house! But she was adamant. She said: the dirty politicians wrote that song, to divide the people and you are never to play it again.
So, you know, you are right, but it goes well beyond the US Dem Party.