The words and worldview contained in Ricketts’ emails and Northam’s yearbook photo and Neeson’s interview have very real, often life-threatening or life-ending ramifications for people of color. Saying, “I don’t see color,” sounds like, “I don’t see what people of color experience.” Two black men getting arrested for waiting for a friend at Starbucks. A black teenager getting shot at for asking directions to his school. A group of black women having the police called on them for golfing too slowly.