"A day or two after the protests last fall, I was sitting at a lunch table with a group of people who, at the time, I would have called friends. I was the only Black person, and everyone else was White. I didn't really think much of it until someone brought up the protests.

One person says, 'To be honest, I never really gave a f**k about it.' The next person goes, 'Yeah, do you think this stuff is going to die down?' Another says, 'I'm hungry, can we talk about something else?'

It was just person after person, and I felt like I was being dragged over and over again. Afterward, I mentioned that they had the privilege to not care if people were feeling uncomfortable or targeted in any way because it wouldn't affect them.

I definitely felt so outcasted and so uncomfortable."