It's real, it's not new, in fact it's been going on for decades.
I know of which I speak, I sued the Florida Dept of Corrections in federal court over racial bias on promotions. This was in 1986 to 1991.
So the basics... a seargent promotion, in fact 2 slots filled. One went to a black male officer, the other to a hispanic female. I had been the black officers training officer, and AFTER the promotion I was assigned to teach the female officer how to run confinement... so she could be MY supervisor.
Understand coming into these promotions I had been working as "acting seargent" for 8 months while we were waiting for the positions to be officially filled.
After the promotions happened, I asked a supervisor what I had to do to be promoted. the answer that came back to me was that these promotions were needed to fulfill EEOC requirements. so I got ahold of the dept's EEOC policy and found that they were misapplying the standard. The standard being applied to the promotions was the same being applied to initial hiring, that the new hires should reflect the racial makeup of society by percentage. So in a effort to stay ahead of the game and not answer any questions, minorities that were less qualified were being moved up the ranks just for appearances.
I'm not going to go into how messy the whole thing became, but by the time we went to court (I had been out of doc for 5 years) the primary thrust of the allegations against me was that I am a racist for even bring the issue up. Only a person wanting to suppress minorities would do so... correct? The fact that I said repeatedly that discrimination against any person for their race, gender etc is unacceptable and that you cannot"fix" past injustices to a group by being unjust to another group seemed to fall on deaf ears.
I won my case with the Florida Commission on Human Rights, but lost in federal court. we could have appealed it, but frankly I was tired of fighting and needed to move on with my life. there was a lot of bad times associated with that.
Several years later, the Supreme Court heard a case basically the same as mine for some firemen from NJ who were the victims of the same "reverse discrimination". After that quotas for the EEOC were dismantled because the supreme court determined you cannot try to reverse past injustices perpetuated on one group by discriminating against another group. Imagine that.
So this has been going on for a long time. It actually has a name... "identity politics". Basically that means that the more your group has been the historic victim of discrimination, the more credibility your claim of discrimination has, regardless of the actual fact of the case. So in that case any black person shot by a white police officer has to be innocent, the while officer a racist. Of course the officer was operating under the long standing idea that law enforcement systematically oppressed black people, because as we know, it has happened in the past. If the black person was caught in the act of carjacking, or committing murder, rape whatever, it has no real bearing on the issue, which is a black man being suppressed by a white man.
One more interesting fact... blacks make up about 14% of the population , but about 40% of the prison population is black. That, of course has nothing to do with any actual statistics that blacks commit a disproportionate amount of violent crime generally against other blacks, but it HAS to be because the justice system is stacked against them, so their lawyer will always be a chump, whereas a white guy accused of the same crime would get the top Harvard graduate assigned to his case at the public defenders office.
I am not a racist. In fact I recall that the grade school I attended up north was next to an old house reported to have been used in the underground railroad... and we all felt a sense of pride in that. But I can tell you that pretty soon thiose who scream "it's racism" are going to start driving good, non racist folks away from their cause, because we know they're overplaying their hand just to get the upper hand in every situation. and that, actually, was the point made in the OP's post. Steve