Completely agree with you! I’m also white and one of the harder things I’ve had to come to terms with is that I shouldn’t be automatically comfortable in all spaces. Where I live in the US, the default space is white and we expect BIPOC people to integrate into our spaces but we never put effort into integrating into their spaces. I would rather this be a space where more people are comfortable even if that means I might have an adjustment period…

I read the sentence as it’s unfortunate that there isn’t more diversity in the population. I don’t think that’s negative or insulting or that it needs an excessive amount of context to understand the meaning of it. We all read and interpret differently…