Inside the Woke Meltdown at One Domestic Violence Organization

Culture

• One of the largest domestic violence nonprofits in the United States, Women Against Abuse, brought in several diversity consultants to conduct a racial-equity audit
• The goal was to become "a fully inclusive, multicultural, and antiracist institution."
• By November 2020, the organization, ostensibly devoted to "serving all survivors," was offering to pay "BIPOC" employees more than their white counterparts and discouraging black abuse victims from calling the police
• Its employees were also at war with each other, bickering over whether Jews are a persecuted minority group and whether there is such a thing as a non-racist white person.

The stakes of this consultant-led metamorphosis are high. Women Against Abuse provides a panoply of services to abuse victims

• from housing and legal representation to child care, case management, and crisis counseling.
• It is also the primary domestic violence shelter in Philadelphia, and helps the city government coordinate efforts to address domestic violence, which surged across the country amid the pandemic.

In 2020, Levitt filed a discrimination complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission alleging that her employer had created a "racially hostile work environment"-in part by asking white staffers to sign a statement affirming that "all white people are racist and that I am not the exception."

• The group's transformation began in July 2020
• Jeannine Lisitski, the then-executive director of Women Against Abuse, hired Arrington as a part-time diversity consultant
• As part of that work, Arrington would facilitate racial "affinity spaces for ongoing healing and conversation"
• They also worked with Crossroads to conduct a multi-year "equity audit," which Arrington has remained involved with to this day

Things went downhill from there

• In November 2020, Women Against Abuse solicited applications for a "Racial Equity Audit Task Force" to help Arrington and Crossroads "eradicate" bias
• True equality would require white members of the task force to earn less than others
• Multiple civil rights laws, including Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, prohibit pay discrimination on the basis of race
• To come up with better solutions, Crossroads surveyed staffers 

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