The short answer to that is yes.
The full answer is that in many ways, the way we thought about the potentiality of employee resource groups is connected to this ombudsperson. What does it mean to create safe, inclusive spaces? Having a person who independently focuses on that will open up different avenues and take the conversation to another level.
Tying in what you said earlier, in many ways having a person who does that work will be able to explicitly tackle what needs to be tackled through an anti-racist perspective. Explicitly naming the work that needs to be done is the real work of anti-racism, not unconscious bias.