The general response from many White people when challenged to take action to stop the microaggressions, bullying, discrimination, and racism their Black colleagues face every day in the workplace?
Too risky.
"I'd say something but I'd get fired."
"I can't challenge my boss."
Or my favorite:
"When my boss makes a racist comment in a meeting, I can't stand up, walk across the table, jump down, yell in his face that he's a racist motherfucker, knee him in the nuts, break his nose with my fist while he's doubled over, take off his glasses and chew them into tiny shards, spit the bloody slivers back in his face, toss him over my back in a firefighter's carry, hurl him through the window, and watch him splatter on the streets 27 floors below."
Okay, I paraphrased that one.
And, no, in most cases, you can't do that.
The point is, as a White person your whiteness automatically puts you in a privileged, powerful, influential position.
There are myriad nuanced, strategic, impactful ways you can challenge other White people.
Ways that will not get you in trouble. Will not get you fired.
That will make a huge difference to your Black colleagues. That will change the workplace culture for the better.
You just have to be more subtle, more creative, more courageous.
And do it.