When an anonymous Black person enters the white space, often the people there immediately try to make sense of him or her – to determine “who that is”, or to figure out the nature of the person’s business and whether they need to be concerned.

Prices kept rising last month in America, pushing a key inflation measure to a level not seen since January 1982. The Consumer Price Index, which measures a basket of goods and services, stood at 7.9% over the 12-month period that ended in February.