I’ve been thinking about the whole ‘Omarosa’ kerfuffle, and it seems to me that this is what happens when you’re racist - you hire people for the wrong reason, and so you hire the wrong people, and then you’re shocked - Shocked! - when they don’t do a good job.

Omarosa’s job was to be black in the White House. That was pretty much it. It was her job description to be the person who could be pointed to when anyone talked about a lack of diversity. A token.

But while people who aren’t deeply racist might simply hire a talented, qualified black person for a job, give them actual work to do, and still point to them to disprove accusations of lack of diversity, in Omarosa’s case, pretty much the entirety of her job was to pull down $180K/year to be black in the White House. It was not clear to her coworkers what her duties were, because she almost certainly didn’t have any.

So, now they don’t even have her.