That's pretty white of you.  I don't really care who your friends are.  They probably laugh behind your back at your extreme whiteness.  Ignoring POC is a form of racism as all studies attest.

As an Indigenous person living within Canada I can attest that racism is a alive, well, and omnipresent.  The very white, middle-aged and plagiarist Margaret Wente should confine her opinions to something she might have a basic clue about.