What this Valerie Jarrett thinks she is doing is beyond me — these people just don’t have any clue about how the real world works.
1. To get people to focus on a different target—it is not the recession, it is now the fault of discrimination
2. By focusing on the unfairness, etc. then she can rally the “oppressed” and get them to go along with her social engineering/social justice, wealth redistribution goals.
You are forgetting the principal reason behind this.
Valerie Jarrett is an old Obama crony from Chicago and Obama had to find a job for her.
This is her “make-work” position—meddling with the economy for the stated benefit of all womyn.