I’ve been granted a view that most Americans on either side of the color line haven’t had, but from a position that an increasing number will find themselves in as the mixed-race population expands. And while I’ve benefited from this view, it is true that it has come at a price—namely the terrible realization that so many people are unreachable and won’t allow themselves to be reached—which is perhaps never more acutely felt than when I am privy to the mechanics of what for want of a better term I’ll call the privilege to be oblivious.
