Most of you don't know that I have pretty severe anxiety in public. A lot of this comes from growing up in rural Georgia where like so many other places in America, if you're a young black man especially, you are met with suspicion, distrust, and the immediate assumption of guilt

When I was attending Valdosta state in 2013 a white man pulled a gun on my outside of a comic shop because he thought I looked suspicious. In 2018 I was put in handcuffs in my own front yard while all of my neighbors looked on because the cop said he smelled pot on me.

I had an officer stop me and ask what I was doing for walking my dog down my OWN street. As a black man I have never had a good experience with cops, or white guys with guns in general. So why am I saying this? For George Floyd and Ahmed Aubrey and all the other black men who

have fallen victim to all of the sick and clearly systemic racial violence that happens in this country. The cops do not protect black people. They harass us. They kill us. I'm so tired of it. I'm so weary. This has to change. #BlackLivesMatters