In her talk earlier in the day, Cogburn had said that it shouldn’t require the hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of hours it took to create this VR project to get people to understand and care about racism. I already knew these things were happening on an intellectual level, and I’d worked to push against them in my own way. I was the target audience for this experience, and I also went into it open to empathy. What if I had been more skeptical to begin with? And what good does it do that I’m still thinking about it so long after the fact?
