Black people know that most of us can’t answer the question of our own whiteness, and that we bring that inability to the table. Thus, they are likely to experience more punishment, not less, if they raise race issues. This is one of the great contradictions of white progressives. On the one hand, I would never want to say or do anything racially hurtful. But on the other, don’t you dare tell me I have said or done anything racially hurtful!
