The 9 Things I Stopped Doing For White Comfort
A n indeterminable number of white people are anxious, angry, and agitated. We could say this about other races too, but none have the past and present like white people.
The terms white fragility and racial anxiety, speak to this need to be comforted, coddled, reassured, and esteemed.
Some white people will do anything to obtain and maintain their comfort. A threat to white comfort is dangerous, and it can even be deadly.
The absence of white comfort doesn’t produce mere crankiness. No, it makes for physical and social concussions and contusions for people of color.
The bruises and scars of white discomfort are evident everywhere. We can see them in changing attitudes, our election results, our laws, in our neighborhoods, in our schools, in policing, and in the prison system.
At points during my life, I’ve tried to make white people comfortable to avoid physical and psychological injury.
But those days are gone.
It was too exhausting to think constantly about white comfort for my survival.
