“Thirty seconds talking about myself is 30 seconds that we should be talking about the real issues that exist in our society. The conversation and the rhetoric that has been created around thedecision for people to peacefully protest by kneeling has been designed by people who don’t want to see change. To take away from the real conversations that we need to be having every singleday. That’s what they want. They want this divisive, hateful rhetoric where there’s no nuance, there’s no middle ground. For me, I will always be a strong voice for racial equality,and I will continue to try to do everything I can to use the platform I have to talk about things that I believe are important. When you look at our society right now, it’s heartbreaking to seethe systemic racism that exists after hundreds of years. The social injustice, the police brutality, it all has to end. I wholeheartedly support Black Lives Matter. I will continue to try to live mylife in a way where the people that I deal with on a daily basis, the things that I do, that I’m able to help in any way that I can to enact that change. I spent that moment during the nationalanthem thinking of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Jacob Blake. Thinking about them, thinking about their families.”
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