This is a great article. I am a white, British, middle-aged and middle-class man, living in the UK, who is married into an African family. One thing that really struck me was the empathy you expressed for those of us who do not have to wonder every day whether today is the day we, or a relative, is killed for no reason. This is in contrast to many Black writers who seem to believe it is entirely up the the “white community” (which is just as misleading as “black community”, equating people from all sorts of backgrounds as if they can be treated as a homogeneous mass) to educate themselves on this. This is what I posted on Facebook in response to my African niece (living in Canada) sharing one such article:

“It is not enough for white people like me to read up on the facts. To get closer to understanding, we need to be helped by people who are directly affected. While we can, and do, feel outrage just from the knowledge of what has happened and continues to happen, we need to move that from the head to the heart and the gut. The power of personal experience directly recounted is massive in doing this. Direct personal experience is also the best way of removing prejudice. So, to my black relatives and friends, if a white person asks for your help to understand, don’t reject them on the grounds that it is their problem, not yours.”