Anti-racist views haven't been enough to make change

During the civil rights era, the evening news showed horrific images of young Blacks being beaten by police for trying to exercise their rights as citizens. Those images moved white Americans to support the passage of monumental legislation such as the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act. But as the years moved on, whites failed to support the kind of government policies “that would bring racial equality to fruition for Blacks,” writes Candis Watts Smith, a scholar of political science and African American studies at Pennsylvania State University. Smith says the current anti-racist movement in the U.S. feels different – there are far more whites involved than in the past. But given history’s lessons, can we expect transformative anti-racist policies to get the support of white Americans?

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