Isaiah Spriggs, a 23-year-old in-school mentor at Franklin High School, leans across the table: “A lot of people are like, ‘What is marching going to do?’”
Waco replies, “What is doing nothing going to do?”
You gotta start somewhere.
Shout out to all white people more concerned with derailing conversations about race to remind us “we’re not all bad,” than with listening.
— Zeba Blay (@zblay) December 4, 2014
Attention all white people, stop thinking about what to say to defend or distance yourselves from the news. Whether you like it or not we have all benefited more than is easy to admit from a society which is steeped in racism. Instead, stop talking, start listening, and focus on what you can do to show you care through actions that matter.
On Being a Black Male, Six Feet Four Inches Tall, in America in 2014
Just like Michael Brown, comedian and commentator W. Kamau Bell is six feet four inches tall. And he knows it.