My first year of undergrad I took a small (around 20 student) all first-year Political Science seminar course about Race and the United States - the course was focused on having us read a couple of articles a week that were a mix of news and academic articles about topics ranging from reparations, to the removal of Confederate monuments, to food deserts and environmental racism. Then in class, we would discuss the arguments made by every article and analyze how they were framing histories of racism and race in the United States. Midway through the semester, I was walking after class with one of my classmates who is Vietnamese American and we were debriefing the class, she noted that she often didn't speak in class because it felt wrong that we were picking apart instance and structures of racism, like food deserts and the model minority myth, that had wrecked violence on her community so our predominantly white class could try to understand racism in the US. For her, it was hard and a jarring reframe to intellectualize violent acts of racism.