Thank you for this essay and your thoughts. I feel like you wanting to treat people like people speaks to where I am on my anti racism journey. I definitely grew up trying to be colorblind. And I also thought that I could welcome people by ignoring our differences. I think now I try to treat people like people but not ignore differences or assume that my way of doing things is the best or right way. I don’t think it does anybody any good for white people like me to disengage from friends/family of the global majority out of fear of committing a micro aggression. I think my best situation would be for me to have close enough relationships with people that I could honestly check in and be able to listen to feedback. I have a few of those and it makes all the difference. I’d rather make a mistake and learn from it than stay silent and make up stories in my head. Thanks again for this piece and I look forward to more from you.