ABSTRACT
Anti-racism education is necessary because despite the best efforts in the field of education, systemic racism exists and supports beliefs, practices, and actions that directly target Black students causing damaging effects on their education opportunities. This chapter will share experiences of Black male educators who teach at the secondary level in Ontario. The author sought to know how Black male educators conceptualize what they experienced in secondary school and how they can reach out to Black students in their role as educators? The stories shared by three Black male educators interviewed are their own lived experiences of racism and looking at the importance of relationships between Black male students and Black male teachers and microaggressions within the schools. Through the lens of critical race theory and critical theory, the chapter will raise awareness of the need for anti-racism education, and the questioning and challenging of systems that espouse racism in education. There is a gap in the level awareness of the experience of Black males within a Canadian educational context and the inferences made as a result of these interviews will help to provide discourse that is greatly needed amongst Black educators, administrative teams, faculty, staff, and the larger school community. While the focus of these conversations may be considered to be against the grain or challenge us to unlearn what we believe is true about our education system, the dialogue is needed to help disrupt the oppression in the educational context.
