Whites are not directly afraid of black people, except maybe in the proverbial alley in the middle of the night. But they are terrified of the black privilege of being able to cancel a white person for racial offenses real or imagined. This privilege has been carefully and systematically installed by progressive white people who have always been just sure that they, personally, will always be protected by a force field of their own virtue signalling. To a large degree, they are right, but not completely. But the under the table handshake, is that those black people, privileged in this certain way, will always vote the progressives into power.