The relationship between white people and anti-Black racism is kind of like this: Imagine one day we discovered that cows could actually speak—and not just speak, but communicate on a level equal to humans. They had dreams, families, culture, history. And they finally said, “Please stop slaughtering us. We don’t want to die anymore.” At first, no one listened. So the cows revolted. They burned down farms and disrupted the meat industry until the cost of keeping them enslaved was greater than the profit. Eventually, the farmers gave in—not out of morality, but because it was no longer worth the losses. So the cows were “freed.” They were no longer…