I still tried to say, “Well, I don’t support the old explicitly racist system, so I can’t be racist.” Yet the system that replaced it, the one we supported and thrived in, was racist. It is a system that ranks people by how much you learn and much you earn, and it is rigged against the back row, and minorities disproportionally start and are confined there. As educator Vivian Wilson Henderson said, “Racism put blacks in their economic place, but changes in the modern economy make the place in which they find themselves more and more precarious.”
