I had to go to diversity classes in the mid 90s. One was taught by a white women who was raised in the suburbs of chicago and claims to have never met a POC til she went to high school. She conveniently concluded that all WHITE people grew up like she did and had to be “re-educated”.
I’ve known very educated women from the Midwest who had little to no personal acquaintance with Black people. They exhibited a lot of really racist ideas while pretending to be all in with DEI - completely unable to see themselves as they really were.
In my opinion, most of those touting DEI are actually racists themselves; they make all sorts of ‘soft racism of low expectations’ about Blacks.