1/ Totally disagree. I grew up in one of the most racist, segregated places in America. When I got to college, my first dorm mate was a black woman. There were no black people in my town. None. My parents weren't racists, but the culture I grew up in was.
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2/ If I hadn't gone to college, met new people, had new experiences, taken African American history, etc, I probably would have stayed in that racist town, married some Republican, and popped out some racist kids to perpetuate the cycle.
3/ Instead, I met my husband, who moved to my college town (Ohio State which has its own problems with race, but compared to where I grew up, is practically a socialist utopia) from Puerto Rico. My second husband's father is Iranian. No chance I would have met them had I not left
4/ Education is not the *only* way to combat racism, of course, but it is a powerful tool. Another powerful tool is to encourage travel. When I was 17, I received a partial scholarship to travel with a classical music chorale through Europe for a summer.
5/ This was a ~90 person choir, each member from a different county of the state. The first black person I ever met was when I was 17 years old on that tour. Even before we left for Europe, I met people from every walk of life, of every race, color, and creed.
6/ Meeting different people from different cultures and walks of life at a young age changed the trajectory of my life. Without those experiences and that education shaping my belief systems, I shudder to think where I would be now.
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