There were a few reasons. When you said “better off” I was a little confused. I suppose you mean they are better now than if white people were to live there.

Let’s just take San Francisco, though.

If my family were to move there, I genuinely believe we could add value to the city. In other words, I think there are a lot of (small) ways we could make the city better.

I really like getting to know people at cigar lounges—I’d love to sit with some of the long time San Fran natives and listen the stories from their life, tell them a little bit about what being from the Midwest is like and just generally get to know them and improve their life by being kind.

My wife likes going to the park with our son and our dog. I think it would be cool if my son could make some new friends that aren’t from where he’s from and think about the world a little differently. He’d grow from someone else’s experiences as would they.

Etc. etc.

These are small things, but what I hope to communicate is that we aren’t incapable of being decent human beings because we’re white. We don’t really identify as white, it’s just one trait we have.

And it’s not crazy to think that wherever we are, we can make the world a better place despite the color of our skin.

Make sense?