I think that you missed the author’s point. Damon Young looks nothing like Khalid. Wypipo choose to not see black people as individuals. Wypipo prefer to see us as amorphous creatures. This “blindness” makes it easier for them to deny our humanity and continue to do evil.

When I was younger and cruising around the lake one night in the rain, I saw a stalled car. As I passed it the man was waving me down. I slowed down and backed up to help but then I got scared that he might not really be broken down and that he was waiting there to attack a young girl. So I put my car back in drive…

I had an interesting thought yesterday and this article reminded me of it.