“Sheltered from what and in contrast to whom?” If we grow up in environments with few if any people of color, are we not in fact less sheltered from racist conditioning because we have to rely on narrow and repetitive media representations, jokes, omissions, and warnings for our understanding of people of color?
I speak a similar langauge by reinforcing that thought of danger. For example, saying that I am less likely to get harassed because I'm brown and look like I belong. a white person, on the other hand, would be in danger
