ABSTRACT
This chapter opens with a counterstory of a Black female student to remind educators to center student voice as part of their mission to interrupt racist systems and policies. The chapter outlines Black educational leaders’ main role as advocates for students who look, speak, act, and dress like them. The chapter provides numerous examples of Black educational leader disgust with the way their “babies” are treated, from the removal of Black children from classrooms and schools to a preference for adult-centered approaches. To illuminate anti-Blackness within educational spaces at all levels across the continuum, the authors center the treatment of Black students and Black leaders as parallel experiences. The chapter concludes with a counterstory of a Black male educational leader’s journey that provides a bookend to the authors’ argument against racist schooling.
