If a bunch of white people got killed by a non-white person who hates white people, absolutely race could be a factor. And absolutely we as a community should do our due diligence and investigate whether race was a factor.

But there IS a distinct difference between white people killed for being white and, say, Black people killed for being Black. Not that one group's lives are worth more than the other's, but there is a power dynamic involved when it's a white person killing POC. At the end of the day, white supremacy is still alive and well in the United States. White people are still in a position of power over everyone else.

The Atlanta situation is also different in the sense that it is 1 white shooter vs. 8, including 6 working class women of colour who may have been involved in sex work. The white man is in a position of power against these women.

Yes, there is only one race, the human race. But failing to take into account ethnicity and gender ("I don't see colour") is failing to take into account the broader social context of incidents like these.

This is how I see it:

What you see: human kills human, this is wrong.

What I see: human in position of relative power kills human in marginalized position, this is wrong and shows a deeper problem with society.