2020 saw the adoption of a New Pact on Migration and Asylum, an EU Anti-racism Action Plan and an Action plan on Integration and Inclusion. Whether these where long-tabled in the EU policy agenda or appeared as a response to the Black Lives Matter protests sweeping Europe in early 2020, they have in common the exclusion or marginalization by EU institutions of migrant participation and as a result, have escaped the anti-racism gaze. A few years on, the announced new wave of anti-racism in the EU seemed to have ebbed without producing the sweeping changes hoped for. In this chapter, we argue this is due in part to civil society advocacy mostly being conducted using the frameworks, silos, and language of EU institutions in order to get “a seat at the table”, therefore upholding the status quo. One complicating factor is that many self-identified “allies” practice a form of anti-racism that fails to recognize racism as a symptom of systemic whiteness. Consequently, anti-racism in EU policy spaces risks becoming a captured framework for abstract thinking rather than a tool to usher-in a reality where there is no racism.