- Have you ever stolen anything before?
- Hip hop isn't your favorite genre?
- Your lips are huge.
- How many baby mamas do you have?
- That is not who I am.
- Tired of hearing black men are lazy.
- Disrespectful.
- Violent.
- Absent.
- I think America's got this very interesting
history with black men.
- America views us one dimensionally,
and for the most part, in a negative way.
- Comments I hate hearing
about black men are...
- Did you grow up in the hood?
- Do you know she only likes
you because you're black.
- You must play basketball, right?
- It vacillates between extreme fear
and extreme infatuation.
- Everyone wants to be black, but on the other hand,
when it's time to be black,
no one wants to be black, because...
- Black men...
- Are...
- Monkeys.
- Problems.
- Thugs.
- But that is not who I am.
- To me, being a black man in America
means to be afraid.
- You have to subject yourself
to being less than a human being
in order for someone else to
feel better about themselves.
- Whenever I see a white female
on the street, if I'm walking behind her,
particularly if it's late at night,
I actually go out of my way to
not only pass her but to pass her as wide
as I can so that she can see me clearly,
and so she can see that I have nothing in my hands.
- I'm tired of hearing that we make up
the hatred and mistreatment that we recieve
from people in power.
- And the fact that if you're 15 years old
and black and you're walking down the street
with a hoodie on, you could be a target
of some kind of harassment.
- I feel like we have targets on our backs.
- Black men...
- Are not...
- Just rappers, athletes.
We're not all great dancers.
- Black men are intelligent...
- Multi-faceted...
- Individuals.
- Compassionate...
- A person just like anybody else.
- This...
- This is who I am.