on a daily basis, Black people don’t interact with those who openly agitate for white nationalism. Yet on a daily basis in the workplace, the classroom, houses of worship, gentrifying neighborhoods, and community groups, Black people do interact with white progressives. We are the ones—with a smile on our faces—who undermine Black people daily in ways both harder to identify and easier to deny. To the degree that we see ourselves as “not racist,” we are going to be very defensive about any suggestion to the contrary. We will see no further action needed because
