I really am baffled by this. If someone absolutely agrees that free college and debt forgiveness will harden racial disparities, but still thinks they should be prioritized over policies that would address racial disparities basically because they are more salient. 
The idea that equalizing public education is some pipe dream perfect that is the enemy of the good baffles me. The thing is, while public education is dependent on zip code and family wealth, making college free helps white people disproportionately. Address the education gap 1st
School loan lending is predatory and I would totally support the government taking over school loans and having people pay it back at 1% interest or some such. Simply forgiving those loans when so many people, and again, disproportionately Black people, Latino & Indigenous people
have been victimized by predatory home mortgage lenders and are underwater and sinking. Some predatory mortgage forgiveness and changing their mortgages to a fairer loan rate is more revolutionary than forgiving debt, much of which is grad school debt.
I just think if you know something makes racial disparities worse, you don't advocate it until you address the inequity driving that result.
Yes, free college and loan forgiveness are "in the zeitgeist" but only because they have been sloganeered for several years now. I think it says something that they did not sloganeer for racial justice policies like universal pre-K and equalizing public school funding
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