The summer time of 2020 was a watershed in American life. After George Floyd’s loss of life in police custody and the following season of rioting, main institutions-from federal businesses to Fortune 100 companies-hastily pledged themselves to the narrative of vital race idea, which holds that America is a essentially racist nation and that private and non-private entities ought to follow "antiracist discrimination" to equalize group outcomes-a state of affairs that its advocates name "racial fairness."