Black Lives Matter is trendy right now. It’s a time for tearing down statues, renaming public spaces, and engaging in virtue signaling on social media platforms. But Deija Brantley, an early childhood educator at a predominantly Black school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania feels that to truly combat the forces of systemic racism, much more than performative anti-racism is needed to build lasting change in communities of color. Change is best built from the bottom up, beginning with the children of today who will inherit whatever world we create for them. I had the pleasure of meeting Deija in my Multicultural Counseling class for my master’s program in clinical psychology. In this…