No question about it. It happens. Interviews with white applicants are often perfunctory and lacking in any objective purpose or intention of selecting the best qualified person for the job. The #1 selection factor is very often based solely on race and gender preferences. Same thing goes for promotions.
A fellow traveler who speaks the truth.
Furthermore, you have to castrate yourself to get by working for some childless corporate sexist woman who is power mad.
No thanks.
To the contrary, the best boss I ever had in my life was a black executive woman. She was the exception. A motivator and champion.