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.
BENJAMIN WATSONI see it in my personal relationships with teammates, friends and mentors. And it’s a beautiful thing.
More Benjamin Watson Quotes
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It’s a sin problem, not a skin problem.
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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.
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You CAN be what you want to be. Whatever that is.
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Moral failure occurs when people lose focus and gradually drift off the path.
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Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job.
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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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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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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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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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When you are public figure, you’re an athlete or actor, that is your job to speak out on certain things. I think you speak out on what you desire to speak out on or your passionate about.
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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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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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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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I’M FRUSTRATED, because pop culture, music and movies glorify these types of police citizen altercations and promote an invincible attitude that continues to get young men killed in real life, away from safety movie sets and music studios.
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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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