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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 Watson

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
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’M FEARFUL because in the back of my mind I know that although I’m a law abiding citizen I could still be looked upon as a “threat” to those who don’t know me. So I will continue to have to go the extra mile to earn the benefit of the doubt.
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Doubt Law 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
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
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
Now he has to fear the backlash against himself and his loved ones when he was only doing his job.
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Against Endure Fear Horrible Job Love Provoke
It’s a sin problem, not a skin problem.
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Problem Sin Skins
I’M CONFUSED, because I don’t know why it’s so hard to obey a policeman. You will not win!!! And I don’t know why some policeman abuse their power. Power is a responsibility, not a weapon to brandish and lord over the populace.
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Confused Responsibility Winning
When we look at our children, I think a lot of the troubles we’re having as a society is because we don’t have strong fathers in these families that can tell their kids that they can do more.
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Children Father Strong
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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Athlete Jobs Thinking
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 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’M SAD, because another young life was lost from his family, the racial divide has widened, a community is in shambles, accusations, insensitivity hurt and hatred are boiling over, and we may never know the truth about what happened that day.
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Community Hurt Racism
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
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

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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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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