Antiracist policy should target elites, not the general population.

Evidence

If it is generally true that the leaders are responsible and need to give a good example, this conclusion also implies that antiracist policies and change should not so much focus on the population at large, but on those who claim to need it less: the elites. If the most influential forms of racism are at the top, it is also there where change has to begin. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1070

Of course, this special perspective on the role of the elites in the reproduction of racism, based on the simple argument that they control public discourse, also explains the role of small groups of elites in the nondominant forms of antiracism. If it is generally true that the leaders are responsible and need to give a good example, this conclusion also implies that antiracist policies and change should not so much focus on the population at large, but on those who claim to need it less: the elites. If the most influential forms of racism are at the top, it is also there where change has to begin. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1070

Categorization

• XREF: Directly flips the usual institutionalized-antiracism design premise (education/training for the masses) and would pair well with a critical essay on where diversity efforts direct their budgets. — connects to: Square movements targeted elite collusion, not capitalism per se. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 93
• SEED: Angle: most corporate and academic antiracism money goes to rank-and-file training precisely because it leaves elite structures untouched; a critique piece could use this as its normative anchor.
• QUESTION: Worth later scrutiny: does this ‘change begins at the top’ claim sit in tension with bottom-up, community-centered antiracism approaches held elsewhere in the vault?
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1070