Thanks for this article.

Growing up in New Orleans, I've had plenty of opportunities to be the only white person in the room. Sometimes I got a bit of side-eye at first, but pretty soon I'm just one of the folks. So I never felt unsafe or whatever it is white people say they feel around Black people.

From what I've seen, Black people got a lot more reason to feel unsafe around white people than the other way around, even now. And that's a damn shame! The Karens, the police brutality, the rise of white supremacist groups (cited by the Department of Homeland Security as a major threat), the thousands of unspoken barriers ... there is no systemic comparison to these in the experiences of when a white person ventures into Black space.

And before someone cuts in with saying they got bullied for being the only white kid in a Black school ... yeah, stuff like this happens, and it's also a shame. Kids can be cruel sometimes, and there are all sorts of reasons kids bully other kids. But this is not on the same widespread systemic level as white racism against Black people.