The Importance of Good Faith in Conversations

I think one way of trying to get to a better place is to have these conversations without the kind of stigmatization, the kind of demonization that I see all too often. When white people try to ask questions out of a genuine and benign sense of curiosity, but nevertheless feel insecure about doing so as though they are working on eggshells. If you're good friends with someone and they know that your questions are coming from a place of wanting to understand and to be more informed, this has come from personal experience. And I would also say I think that phenomenon of eggshell walking is actually specific really just to the public sphere or for white people who just don't have any close black