@breadbin
I think something that’s helpful when mulling this over is to back off of focusing on •individual• racism (“Does this specific person have Bad Things in their heart?”) and look at systemic racism. How is racism baked into who owns what property, what generational wealth, what latitude, what assumptions, etc?
When you recognize how systemic racism is entangled with things that affect the feeling of personal safety, individual racism is less baffling (but grosser).