What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race?

Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience?

Do you warn your children about how people might react to them; find store staff following or watching you; get stopped by the police for no reason?

The students of color in your classroom experience discrimination every day, in small and large ways. They don't often see themselves represented in their textbooks, and encounter hostility in school, and outside. For them...

What is it that gives many of us White people a visceral fear about discussing race?

Do you realize that being able to not think about or talk about it is a uniquely White experience?

Do you warn your children about how people might react to them; find store staff following or watching you; get stopped by the police for no reason?

The students of color in your classroom experience discrimination every day, in small and large ways. They don't often see themselves represented in their textbooks, and encounter hostility in school, and outside. For them...