What White People Don’t See
7 min readMay 1, 2024
I’m white. For much of my life I’ve been oblivious to racism. I grew up in a Jewish suburban neighborhood in Studio City. I did not have friends of color until high school. I did not have a meaningful conversation about race with a black person until college. My family’s politics were left leaning. I followed suit.
During my sophomore year at UCLA, I joined an anti-apartheid student group. I participated in…