Additional clarifications
In Naya’s mind, everyone should be able to hear her thoughts. Besides that, she said that the man of color was not black. So, he couldn’t see things through her eyes. For a variety of reasons, she didn’t like how he thought about this, but she didn’t want to be angry at him.
However, she was done. She wanted to show that she was in charge. In time, these doubts got bigger and bigger, until one conversation took them all away, letting me see things more clearly.