A tone-deaf attack on diversity at a university first built by the enslaved [Video]

Posts began popping up in my social media feeds a couple of weeks ago from friends in my demographic: White, male and old enough to know better.

They linked back to stories in the Washington Examiner or the Washington Times about a report by the nonprofit group OpenTheBooks.com, asserting that the University of Virginia spends about $20 million a year on diversity, equity and inclusion staff.

Twenty million dollars is no small pile of cash. But let’s view it in perspective.

If spotlighting nonessential, nonacademic spending is the point, compare it to what UVa spends on its big-time sports programs. Data gathered by USA Today show that UVa spent about $150 million on intercollegiate athletics last year. About $46 million of it went to pay coaches and another $22 million went to scholarships for Wahoo student-athletes. That ranks Virginia 17th nationally in athletics spending and 14th in gross revenue among …