I am a white man. I just want to say to anyone of color reading this that you are all my brothers and sisters, and I don’t see your color. I see your humanity. I love you all as I love all people.
Please do not look at me as if I were your enemy. Please don’t think the worst of me when I’m not my best. Be my brother or sister, as I would be yours.
I truly miss not having to see people for their color, but it’s forced upon me now, at a time which I’d simply prefer to forget it exists as a difference. I have to walk so carefully around people of color, they get so hurt and offended if I say or do something without a second thought. Before I entered the world of adulthood, I never had to do this, I never cared or even noticed. But now I have to, for fear of my job, and even maybe my life.
This is not how it should be. We had to apologize to you, now you have to forgive us, and once you do, we can forget the whole thing together. There are some on both sides that cling to the past, so let us, the enlightened, leave them behind.
I’m just sad and tired of being forced to be someone I am not, because of something so outmoded and irrelevant as racism.