I make fucked up decisions and these are my consequences. That’s what I teach my kids.” “Because that’s what we were taught, Dalvin. Especially in the black community. We are so damn hard on ourselves. You should know better is instilled in us. We’ve been whooping our kids like Massa whooped us for moving to slow, or talking too loudly, or spilling a drink for hundreds of years. Now we’re breaking cycles. Having conversations. Figuring out the why. Reasons are not excuses, Dalvin. They’re reasons. There’s always a reason.”
