If you work in the entertainment field and claim to be a victim of the privileged class, you’re guaranteed to receive massive amounts of attention. Just ask Jussie Smollett.

And now you can also ask Whitney Davis, a former CBS executive who is black and who took advantage of that truism by claiming, in a lengthy essay for Variety, that she and other minorities were held back because the network has “a white problem.” The attention came quickly: Her piece got a link from the Drudge Report, and influencers in politics and media passed it around on social media.