I feel this sentence is important and underpins most of the dialogue around race - the difference here is you're writing about a black man who has made an uninformed, some might argue ignorant, statement about race that has caused offence within a separate racial community. You have dealt with the matter quietly, compassionately and with an equanimity that you don't display elsewhere in much of your writing. Here you call for unity and for understanding between communities and compassion to be shown to someone who spoke out of turn and whose apology should suffice.

Elsewhere, you make the argument other racial groups (predominantly whites) should be held accountable at every turn for their lack of knowledge and should be thrown out of jobs for their racist ignorance. So, my question remains, is there a universal standard you want to apply to all people when they fuck up on the complexities of race, or does your position on the matter come down to the colour of the skin of those who transgress? If that is the case, how can we solve a problem like racism by consistently applying our own racial prejudice at every turn?