Strange this is controversial since everyone on the left typically believes a person’s skin color is someone’s most important quality.

When Ben Jealous became the first person of color to lead the Sierra Club, the prominent civil rights leader promised to create more inclusive working conditions at the nation’s oldest environmentalgroup.

“We have to deal with all of the equity issues inside the Sierra Club,” he said in January. “Those include, absolutely, issues of gender, as well as racial equity and also pay equity.”

But today, the 131-year-old group is in turmoil over its approach to diversity, equity and environmental justice, according to interviews with 12 current and former staffers, most of whom spoke to The Washington Post on the condition of anonymity for fear of facing retaliation or otherwise harming their job prospects.

Come April, WaPo reports, Jealous let go of over 30 people including a number of minority staff members including (ironically enough) the equity team and an Ethiopian woman who complained about regular mistreatment on the part of her coworkers. Though the organization was deep in debt, it did not, according to The Post, prevent Jealous from hiring a number of executive staff with a combined income equal to the laid off personnel.

All of this may not make much difference to the woke Sierra Club employees and it is possible their new leader used identity politics as a way to consolidate his power. However, this demonstrates that identity politics doesn’t discriminate when it comes to tearing organizations apart and this was a much-needed example for leftists to experience in their own backyard.