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As a white man, I’ve been struggling to find the right way to be involved and supportive of the current protests in the U.S.
It shouldn’t be about my voice right now. I don’t have anything worthwhile to add. I haven’t experienced the pain that so many others live with every day.
I could simply write another career article. I could pretend that the world isn’t burning. But, it seems tone-deaf to ignore what is going on all over the country, and now the world.
Of course, I’m sad, frustrated, and angry by what is happening to people who are exercising their right to protest peacefully.
As a reminder, the First Amendment to the U.S. Consitution states:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
