Highly educated people, who sometimes know better, contribute to systems of racial harm on a regular basis. The highly educated designed America’s system of segregation and America’s prison system. Highly educated lawyers devise arguments to protect police who kill black and brown folks, highly educated prosecutors decline to bring charges, and highly educated judges assign light sentences. And whites with high cognitive ability are no more likely to support practical policies that lessen racial inequality. Solutions to racial inequality require a reorganization of what creates inequality in the first place: unequal access to social and material resources.

Source: Washington Post June 18, 2020 16:57 UTC