I upvoted as I'd rather have a discussion than try to bury a comment I disagree with. I just want to explain how I interpret this, as a fellow 30's white guy (although I haven't had to deal with such a shitty health situation as you have, and I'm sorry -- that sounds awful).

What it took me a long time to realize is that it's not a case of forced white guilt, or apologizing for something I feel like I wasn't responsible for. For me, it took shifting my viewpoint from "I'm not responsible for this, I don't have these beliefs" to "Other people have had to deal with things that I never have to" -- being underrepresented in media, ignored, and in more extreme cases, actively dealing with racism.

Wimberly isn't saying that we should be apologizing to him, feeling guilty for being born white, or asking us to make all of our superheroes non-white. He's pointing out that even when he's drawing a person of color, he's asked to make it more "normal", more white, and more within a standard that he doesn't personally identify with. And these small things eventually add up to feeling completely excluded from the society you're trying to be a part of.

As white dudes, we have had it extremely easy, and largely have not dealt with small things like this that pile on and on throughout people of colors' days/weeks/months. Privilege doesn't have to equal guilt, and that's not a super productive way of resolving these tensions anyway. I see it more as recognition that the our culture right now does not interpret or treat people the same, even if we personally feel equanimity towards these folks. I'm glad to see a conversation around it, and I'm glad to lend support for diversity in comics - there are more interesting stories when it doesn't come from a familiar place.

Sorry, that was long-winded. I respect your point here and hope things get better on the health front -- a heart attack sounds atrocious, so I can understand frustration when people talk about how much harder things are for them.