Conversation

I’ve come to understand that there’s a dynamic to this issue. I, a black person, interact with dozens of white men and women per day, professionally and socially. But for those same white people, I am literally the only black person *they* interact with. Their social and professional circles insulate them from the kinds of situations that expose racism (institutional and otherwise), rendering conversations about race an abstract thing. They can’t have a conversation about *why* I’m the only black person they interact with, or *why* there’s only 1 black kid in their kids’ AP classes, or on that school sports team. Who are they going to have that conversation with?

“I see dead people…
…They don’t know they’re dead”