Er, "Scholar and consultant"? Is it now mandatory to be actively stupid in order to become an "adjunct faculty member at a community college" (which, the impression I've got of American higher education, is not all that high in fact?)

Let's go out and cut down all fruit trees, currant bushes, and heck even strawberry vines (because you can't get any more low than 'on the ground') in the name of anti-racism!

Can I get one of these soft sinecures? I promise to be performatively aggravated about anything and everything at the drop of a hat 24/7 and willing to fire off long screeds about how a common phrase is not alone a microaggression, it is actively encouraging people to join the Ku Klux Klan. Take that "proverb" about pots and kettles - very suspicious with its mention of blackness in a derogatory manner! Will Rant For Money!

Out of sheer curiosity, I tried looking up who this Professor Mae Hicks-Jones is, and I'm rather confused. There's a Mae Jones in the Elgin directory as "Business Unit Adjunct I Faculty" who is either on a tiny salary or only does this part-time ("Principles of Management" class), and is she the same as Mae Hicks-Jones above and is that the same Dr. Mae Hicks-Jones who does some HR Consulting in Advanced Diversity and Inclusion who is also something in banking and that may well be the same Dr. Mae Hicks-Jones who is also an authoress whilst being the Diversity and Inclusion Consultant for the City of Elgin starting before the pandemic?

Dr. Mae Hicks Jones was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois, by a single parent of four children. She has been a Human Resources professional at one of Chicago's premier financial institutions for over twenty-eight years. She is a community activist, mentor, mother, and wife with five college degrees.

Five, you will note. So this is how she gets to invent new words like Inspirmaetions (I'm presuming, in my ignorant effrontery, this is a portmanteau of "inspire", "inspirations" and "affirmations") for her collection of inspirational poetry.

(Actually, it's freaky how much info you can dig up on someone with some minor and very quick searching).

Anyway, my point with all this rambling is that complaining about low-hanging fruit and grandfathers looks like the good old "diversity consultant" grifting, after all she's newly minted consultant for the city of Elgin, she needs to produce something to show they're getting their money's worth!