It takes a lot to put everything on the line: your livelihood, your morals, your community, everything. I suspect a lot of people think, from a distance, that it’s not that hard to do, like, “Oh, I’d be on the front lines. I’d sit. I’d raise a fist. I’d take a knee.” But it’s so much easier to talk shit than to do shit, because once you are out there representing what you believe, people see the real you. Most everybody in the world wears a mask, and very rarely do people unveil who they really are. And I’ve done that. I’m naked here. So I’m going to be judged by strangers on the core of who I
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