It appears that our real issues, the ones we desperately like to assume are over whenever a big "First" happens, are biting and looming. This following spoken word piece is my attempt to explore these issues.

Yes, black people have many behaviors that are a direct or indirect result of discrimination and socio-economic factors. But that doesn’t exonerate us from any responsibility for our own behavior, and to ridicule the idea that we should try to be better people is to keep our situation stagnant.