When Time published the headline:
“Pantone Chooses White as its Color of the Year for the First Time Ever. See It Here,”
a white woman immediately sent it to me with the caption:
“Of course it is.”

That reaction wasn’t sarcasm.
It was recognition.
Recognition that in this global political climate, even something as seemingly benign as a color announcement can’t be separated from the systems, institutions, and policies shaped by the myth of white supremacy.