Decentering Whiteness in My Classroom

By David Mercaldo

Angela Davis said, “In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be anti-racist.” As an educator and scholar of history living in the United States of America, I know that I am living in a racist society, but I should have known this earlier in life. I was taught from an early age to be kind to others and to be non-racist. I was not initially taught the wise words by Angela Davis and I wouldn’t learn them until I was a young adult.