I’m the Inquirer’s only black male news columnist. That speaks to a larger problem.

It is whiteness—the structures and social phenomena that produce white privilege—that causes outlets like the Inquirer to publish racially offensive material. And I truly believe it is not always intentional. However, when your editors are overwhelmingly white, when you are self-congratulatory in your white liberalism, and when you routinely ignore the input of black people, you end up with headlines like “Buildings Matter, Too.”