Please no more, “education will save us from racism” takes. The most sophisticated racism in American history has been designed by the most educated. And arguing that education will save us is a category error. You can’t just educate away a power system.

Obviously I’m an educator so I think anti-racist education matters...but mostly at the margins. Systemic changes have mostly come from social movements forcing organiztions and the state to change.

I think of this as similar to trying to convince oil executives that global warming is real. For the most part, they know it is real and the derive short-term benefits from that reality. And they use every cognitive and propaganda trick deny that reality.