Why should you be? This is something that you have never had to confront. This is alien to you. It is more likely that any experience you have with racism is that you were the perpetrator. Nothing as sordid as driving past a black family and screaming nigger at them. Something subtle. Maybe you clutched your purse when a black person walked by. An awkward laugh at a racist joke while surrounded by a bunch of white people. The time when you spent less time on a black customer than a white customer because you felt they were not going to tip well. Perhaps you paid extra attention to a black customer than a white customer because you believed they were going to steal.
That Time My Kid Googled Me and I Was No Longer ???Dad???
Hey Daddy, are you popular?” My eight-year-old daughter ambushed me one Sunday morning, her voice squeaking equally with cheekiness and curiosity. “Huh?” I said,…