From what I see around me, White Americans who, for the most part, left the interior of the America continent to come to the big coastal liberal cities believe in liberal egalitarianism (especially the college educated millennials) and that makes it very hard for them to talk about race or racial issues as they have many taboos about such speech. Not only do they not know how to talk about this stuff -- and focus on the shocking abstract injustices that happen to other people while remaining skeptical of their own participation in micro aggression and x-cultural discomfort -- they appear to feel that any talk about race is only something that POC do in academic terms or that their hometown interior-America "uneducated" white elders talk about. Thus, discourse on race is either "lower class" speech or it is something for academics. They appear to fear being "dragged into the lower class mud" once such talk touches on points that make them uncomfortable and that is when the "well, we don't talk that way" shield comes up and either they shut the talk down or do a flounce.

My point is that believing one lives in a liberal anti racist bubble -- which they do -- is actually a set of blinders. The entire society is racist and everyone no matter their color or ethnicity grows up steeped in it and all the unspoken classist taboos and misbeliefs that come with it.

And that means that learning how to talk about race and racism is one of the biggest cultural challenges that America faces over the next few decades.

It's going to be like getting 50% of America to learn to become fluent in a foreign language that most of hem literally fear learning.