LEAN IN or HOW TO MAKE A WELL-MEANING RACIST NERVOUS or HOW TO LAUGH AT THIS NONSENSE or FOR THE CULTURE

There was one time

I was in a car with

an older white man

who told me

he’d never really

talked to black

people never even

looked us in

the eyes

that this

was new for him

I had

news for him

it sounded like silence

and automatic doors

locking