The author complements his JoLLE keynote speech, available on video, with an essay that situates historical means of oppression within two current pandemics: the coronavirus crisis and the longstanding crisis of White supremacy. He expands this notion to include societal advantage beyond Whiteness, particularly the advantages that accrue to wealthy, western European descended, able-bodied, cis-gender, Protestant, heterosexual males, whose lives have been normalized to represent all that is right and good. Schools, he maintains, are structured to support the value system of a single demographic group, making U.S. schooling fundamentally unjust extensions of discrimination more broadly practiced. He asserts that teachers dedicated to abolishing oppressive systems must teach to refute what the world says about Black and Brown youth. He maintains that a post-pandemic world would abandon its orientation to markets and status quo preservation. Rather, it will shift its emphasis to a commitment to cultivating students' knowledge of themselves, their solidarity as members of a community, and their self-determination beyond the bounds of the discriminatory structures that have long dominated US society and its schools.