Thank you so much for reading and responding. This piece is a combo of my thoughts and a friend’s thoughts from our podcast show. I have a friend, also named Sam, and we chat almost every day about some random thought or question about race, politics, and current events. I bounce a lot of ideas off him that turn into pieces on Medium. Even if I get an insight from a book or my own head, I talk to him about them. I need to chat and think with others. So, this is kind of like a two for one in this piece. Haha.