There is total lack of understanding among many legal services attorneys about what white supremacy is, how it works, & how to confront it - law schools need an anti-racism class for 1Ls as mandatory & normalized as their property & con law classes.
But of course this would not be enough. Racism is about power, so some white people will continue to protect racist institutions and enforce racist policies, whatever their understanding of white supremacy, because it's in their interest to do so.
Why not discipline lawyers who continue to work for racist institutions? Why not disbar ICE lawyers? Every state Bar has the power to halt mass incarceration instantly, whenever it wants, just be suspending the licence of prosecutors.
No state or model rules of professional responsibility says explicitly that complicity with white supremacy is unethical, even though we know white supremacy prejudices clients of color in court. These rules should identity complicity & our responsibility to resist it.
I call upon all state bars to give us an anti-racist renovation of our entire "self-regulated" legal profession.
