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  • - Have you ever stolen anything before?

  • - Hip hop isn't your favorite genre?

  • - Your lips are huge.

  • - How many baby mamas do you have?

  • - That is not who I am.

  • - That is not who I am.

  • - That is not who I am.

  • - Tired of hearing black men are lazy.

  • - Disrespectful.

  • - Violent.

  • - Absent.

  • - I think America's got this very interesting

  • history with black men.

  • - America views us one dimensionally,

  • and for the most part, in a negative way.

  • - Comments I hate hearing

  • about black men are...

  • - Did you grow up in the hood?

  • - Do you know she only likes

  • you because you're black.

  • - You must play basketball, right?

  • - It vacillates between extreme fear

  • and extreme infatuation.

  • - Everyone wants to be black, but on the other hand,

  • when it's time to be black,

  • no one wants to be black, because...

  • - Black men...

  • - Black men...

  • - Black men...

  • - Are...

  • - Monkeys.

  • - Problems.

  • - Thugs.

  • - But that is not who I am.

  • - To me, being a black man in America

  • means to be afraid.

  • - You have to subject yourself

  • to being less than a human being

  • in order for someone else to

  • feel better about themselves.

  • - Whenever I see a white female

  • on the street, if I'm walking behind her,

  • particularly if it's late at night,

  • I actually go out of my way to

  • not only pass her but to pass her as wide

  • as I can so that she can see me clearly,

  • and so she can see that I have nothing in my hands.

  • - I'm tired of hearing that we make up

  • the hatred and mistreatment that we recieve

  • from people in power.

  • - And the fact that if you're 15 years old

  • and black and you're walking down the street

  • with a hoodie on, you could be a target

  • of some kind of harassment.

  • - I feel like we have targets on our backs.

  • - Black men...

  • - Black men...

  • - Black men...

  • - Are not...

  • - Just rappers, athletes.

  • We're not all great dancers.

  • - Black men are intelligent...

  • - Multi-faceted...

  • - Individuals.

  • - Compassionate...

  • - A person just like anybody else.

  • - This...

  • - This...

  • - This...

  • - This is who I am.

- Have you ever stolen anything before?

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