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I’M HOPELESS, because I’ve lived long enough to expect things like this to continue to happen. I’m not surprised and at some point my little children are going to inherit the weight of being a minority and all that it entails.

Benjamin Watson

It’s a sin problem, not a skin problem.
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Problem Sin Skins
I’M ANGRY because the stories of injustice that have been passed down for generations seem to be continuing before our very eyes.
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Eye Generations Racism
I’M HOPEFUL, because I know that while we still have race issues in America, we enjoy a much different normal than those of our parents and grandparents.
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America Beautiful Race
In any given marketplace, there’s a triangle. There’s a line of Dior goods at $25,000 that creates the sharp focus you need to sell $100 scarves to every woman.
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Design Focus Needs
A consistent and heart-filled effort to completion is the foundation of excellent work.
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Effort Excellent Heart Work
If fathers aren’t growing up, I would challenge them to want to be a father that is present in the home, so that their kids have that identity.
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Father Grow Up Home
Sometimes I’m just as prejudiced as people I point fingers at. And that’s not right. How can I look at white skin and make assumptions but not want assumptions made about me? That’s not right.
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Assumption People Point Situation Sometimes
I see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it’s a beautiful thing.
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Beautiful Friend Mentor Personal Relationship Thing
I’M SYMPATHETIC, because I wasn’t there so I don’t know exactly what happened. Maybe Darren Wilson acted within his rights and duty as an officer of the law and killed Michael Brown in self defense like any of us would in the circumstance.
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Exactly Happen Jobs Men Self Sympathetic
When [Design Miami] Basel popped on the scene, it proved there’s a market for the top of the design triangle, which will lead the wide base beneath it.
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Beneath Design Market Proved Triangle
What a horrible thing to endure. OR maybe he provoked Michael and ignited the series of events that led to him eventually murdering the young man to prove a point.
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Endure Point Prove Provoke Series
Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.
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Focus Path People
The cure for the Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, Tamir Rice and Eric Garner tragedies is not education or exposure. It’s the Gospel. So, finally, I’M ENCOURAGED because the Gospel gives mankind hope.
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Encourage Eric Giving Mankind Tragedy
I’M OFFENDED, because of the insulting comments I’ve seen that are not only insensitive but dismissive to the painful experiences of others.
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Experiences Insulting Painful Racism
I’M INTROSPECTIVE, because sometimes I want to take “our” side without looking at the facts in situations like these. Sometimes I feel like it’s us against them.
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People Racism White
I believe that I have a platform because God blessed me with the talent to play football. Having that talent, my job is to be responsible with it.
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Believe Football Jobs

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