Chapter 2 Black Lives Matter in the Era of Colorblindness Bonus Episode

Owner & Founder of KingVillz music, my former student Dionte' Villia' is doing it big! 
Excelling academically, accomplished athlete, and fighting social injustice.  Listen as he gives his take on Black Lives Matter & what needs to be done in order to make real change.

"That's what Black Lives Matter is--that fight for people to understand, because there's some ignorant people that don't want to, they don't want to open their eyes to the reality that we have to face.  Black Lives Matter is just  educating those people. It's that continuous fight. 

For me, at least it was always an understanding that because of the color of my skin, I would always be at a disadvantage and it didn't matter what I did. So if I walked in the street, police would be looking towards me who's not really doing anything, versus a white person across the street that's actually committing a crime just because of the color of my skin. It's created the vibe of having this negative stereotype that black people are evil, manipulative problem makers, and it gives this privilege towards people with lighter skin tone. It's a difficult fight.

Because as a young black man growing up in America, your faced with [a lot], you're already in a ruthless environment 99% of the time, because of the poverty stricken places, you probably grew up in. I grew up in New Orleans. The murder rate was insanely high, especially after Katrina.  We actually have to work 10 times harder than the average person just to get to where we need to be."