cawacko
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Incremental change. More and more children of color going to college/university. More and more educated employees moving up the corporate and government food chains. We already have popular media and advertising featuring non-white folks; that alone helps to take away the concept of difference. Notice how this worked to help remove the gay stigma -- gay characters in movies and TV programs, gay characters in advertising?
I’ll offer a couple of examples of what I’m talking about.
The police. Many big cities in America have black, or a P.O.C., police chief and very diverse forces. Yet they are still dominated/run by white supremacy. Having 100% P.O.C. on the staff isn’t going to change that (as the argument goes).
Oakland has long had issues with schools and due to financial problems and declining enrollment they had to shut a handful of schools recently. The school board who voted to do it consisted on 6 people, 1 white person and 5 P.O.C. Even then the school closings were called an act or white supremacy.
College campuses. Generally speaking elite schools aren’t run by a bunch of #MAGA folks yet Universities have been called bastions of white supremacy.
So it’s far more than simply having people grow up in more diverse environments. The argument is our systems are fundamentally racist and putting P.O.C. in charge of them does not change that fact.
