Do we want to talk about whiteness, or stop talking about race so much (and instead just quietly fix the problems)?

You made not talking about whiteness, not noticing whiteness seem pretty nice. Extending this to everyone was the goal of the "color-blind" approach to race. This seems to have fallen so far out of favor to basically be considered racism itself these days, but I don't think you can get through the fog without addressing that at some point.

Because you make it sound nice (not "my Germanic heritage is being suppressed and oppressed" or "my Germanic heritage is allowed, unfairly, to supersede and trample all over the heritage of others"), and if racial justice is to be about lifting people up into better conditions rather than tearing people down into worse ones until we're all more equal, then one needs some discussion of how to view this.