An audio recording of Lena Waithe was played:
"I wanted to humanize us. There's a study that says, if you're ever being held up at gunpoint, you should share personal things about your life. You should say, you have a child, you should say you have parents waiting for you at home, you should talk about what you survived. Because, then the gunman sympathizes with you. It's harder for them to kill you. So, for me, with my work, I figured, maybe if I could humanize black people enough, they'll stop killing us.
"I wanted to humanize us. There's a study that says, if you're ever being held up at gunpoint, you should share personal things about your life. You should say, you have a child, you should say you have parents waiting for you at home, you should talk about what you survived. Because, then the gunman sympathizes with you. It's harder for them to kill you. So, for me, with my work, I figured, maybe if I could humanize black people enough, they'll stop killing us.
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