He said:
"The opportunity to go to DC, the opportunity to be around thousands and thousands of Black people; I just thought it was a good opportunity to be a part of something."
Question:
Is it a problem if I want to go somewhere to ”be around thousands and thousands of white people?”
To ask the question is to answer it. Every other race and ethnicity in the world, aside from those of white European descent, are allowed to exult in that ineffable joy of
"being around people like me in large numbers". Yes, I know they're Novus Ordo to the bone (partially due to hero worship of JPII), but that is one sense I got in Poland at my niece's first communion. Throngs of people filled the streets, all on their way to Mass, the children all dressed in uniform albs (they do this so that the families won't have to spend money on first communion clothes), everyone is Catholic, a sea of Slavic and Germanic humanity, blond, brunet, redhead, something too beautiful to put into words.
It was also much the same in Belgium when I was at the train station in Ghent waiting on a connection. I looked around me and said
"these people look like me, I'm where I belong, I'm home". (I have no known Flemish blood, but it's only 60 miles from England, we're all basically the same race.)
How toxically racist. Excuse me while I go check my privilege and repent of my micro-aggressions.
(Full disclosure: my other niece is a fashion model in Poland. Not patently immoral in itself, but I'd like to see her get in another line of work. Too much potential for trouble.)