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There are well-educated racists, but there's MORE uneducated racists. The well-educated racists spread their ideology and weaken their opposition by hurting education, then they get to rule over the other racists by using their education.
But the bigger issue is the racist part, there must be people in history who were vehemently racist who had a change of heart...
What does it take for that to happen, is there a way to nudge them to take off their jacket in the warm sun
Educate them.
Show them the world outside of their bubble. Let them interact with people different to them, expand their horizons, and enrich their personalities. A trip around the world can be useful, I think.
It's not guaranteed. Like I said, there are well-educated racists. There are people who don't even care about their own children, so why would you expect them to like minorities? They will never change. There is NOTHING you can do about them.
But the ones you can do something about? They could do with education.
I doubt many MAJOR racists changed their minds at all.
For the sake of definition, I'm going to say a major racist is someone who actively hates a group and will go out of their way to watch them suffer. A minor racist could be a child of a major racist. They won't go out of their way to make them suffer, but they are suspicious of them and less likely to treat the group with equal respect. They don't have personal reasons for their hate, but they've been raised to accept the group as inferior.
Minor racists either lean into the racism, or they get out of that circle and expand their perspective.
Progress is generational. Our kids are generally more accepting than we are. Young adults today are more accepting of LGBT+ than my generation was, just like we were less racist than our parents or grandparents.
Major racists don't change their mind, they die off. We sadly won't see major change in our lifetime, but as long as we instill our good values to the next generation, and are willing to learn new ones from the younger generation, we'll get there.