Jason L. Riley: Critical Race Theory Is A Hustle

Indeed it is. It's part of the vast diversity-industrial complex that includes idea laundering and the siphoning off of public money into the coffers of leftist "experts" and consultants that progressive faculty bring in to tell them that their universities and schools aren't progressive enough. 

Hoffer: “Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket.” This was never a great cause--unless you squint enough to make it look like the successor of the civil rights movement. But it's certainly at the racket phase now.