Unlearn. That’s how the 1995 film Higher Learning written and directed by John Singleton concludes. The word is scrawled across the screen after 127 minutes of plot exposing and interrogating the sociopolitical status of America. Set on the fictional campus of Columbus University, presumably a predominately White institution (PWI) with its homage to Christopher Columbus with a statue of him erected on the campus, Singleton’s anti-racist film grapples with issues of racism, classism, sexual assault, economic disparities, and gun violence. But, unlearn is a paradox considering that everything we have learned about America in the film is as firmly entrenched in our reality as the flag that haughty waves on the screen when the film begins. Scenes that play out between professor and student in the film, reveal what Giroux (2008) describes as “a useful optic for enabling students to recognize both education as an essential public good and democracy as the very condition for exercising any critical and viable notion of individual and social agency”. But it all begins with Black teachers who historically had to unlearn and recast that which they had been taught in the academy so that they would be equipped to respond to the learning needs of their Black students with regard to real-life situations.