....white conservatives who are well funded and organized viciously attacked the BLM organizers, Professor Kendi, and Professor DiAngelo, and they openly attacked the college in Florida. You left out the reason for the failure of antiracism: well-funded white confederates and their think tanks. Like all historians, you speak in passive tense, absenting the attackers and not identifying them. Who decided to attack Kendi and ask him to answer questions? Who designed these attacks and amplified what should be petty comments about DiAngelo? Who subpoenaed the first black female president of Harvard? Who attacked the Florida college, fired staff, and then hired an unqualified ultra-conservative pro-racist who then fired professors and board members?

You point to "we" and "you". Well, it wasn't me, and it wasn't "we." The only reason "we" know about what "you" are talking about is because of deliberate actions that white conservatives took action to attack these minorities, put the stories in the media of what were really trivial discussions by college professors, and then had institutions attack these professors openly. It worked. These professors got fired and criticized by liberals and not just conservatives.

You act like $10,000 is good money. But that is a consultant fee for the whole week, including taxes that she must pay to the government, airfare, and business expenses, as well as time to arrange the PowerPoint, write the script, and practice her presentation. In comparison, Bill Gates's wealth grew by 3 million dollars an hour, every hour of every day. Who should be more criticized, a woman getting paid for an entire week of work in an attempt to explain racism and dismantle the perceptions of it, or a guy who bought an operating system, leased it out to computer companies, and is now in retirement, not working sees his wealth grow from $57 billion when he retired to $177 billion after retirement doing really "nothing" to "earn" that money.

This is the actual problem: perspective. Mental viewpoint. One woman gets criticized for trying to help shine a light on institutional WHITE racism, and the other gets made to be some hero for "earning" $112 billion when retired. Gates's daughter got a $5 million engagement ring to wear on her finger for being a super spoiled rich white girl, and DiAngelo got a media attack and an inbox full of threats for at least trying to educate audiences on undeniable, very real racism deeply embedded in corporations. The criticism is all on the liberal and not the uber-rich conservative who is anything but.

I'm not saying you disagree with me, only that what is amplified and what the general public piles criticism on is what the conservative outrage machine design in think tanks and corporate boardrooms tells them to.

The fact that we are even having this discussion and that everyone feels the need to comment on your (well-written and, as usual, profoundly nuanced writing) means that the the corporate owners and conservative party won. They are creating destructive rhetoric that has a very real impact on black professionals.

"We" --your audience--continue to need your very real insights and clarity. Thank you.