![]() “I don't want her to perceive me as a threat simply because I'm large and I’m Black,” he says. White people need to make an effort to understand what Black people experience, such as when Acho checks his mail in his affluent Austin, Texas, neighborhood, he waits in his car if there’s a white woman walking near the mailbox. But Black people are still mourning the death of Emmet Till - a 14-year-old boy who was killed by two white men in 1955 after a white woman falsely claimed he flirted with her.īlack people are burdened by hundreds of years of oppression, he says. This speaks to another reason why he started the video series: Many of his white friends who wanted to help needed to educate themselves first.Ī lot of white people think Black people were protesting exclusively because of the killing of George Floyd, he says. When actor Matthew McConaughey asked on a recent episode how he can do better as a white man, Acho said to listen and educate yourself. But I do understand what will happen if electricity and water have a negative interaction.” You need water to survive and electricity, and it obviously is a great benefit. ![]() He explained that he’s not afraid, but rather cautious of white people: “Electricity and water, they are both imperative to our society. In a recent video with Chip and Joanna Gaines from HGTV’s “Fixer Upper,” the couple’s 10-year-old daughter Emmie asked Acho if he’s afraid of white people - one of the toughest yet purest questions he’s received so far. ![]() “If a burden is leading to messages like that, then please burden me all the more.” “Ultimately, if what I am doing can help change the world and save a life, then even if it is a burden, so be it,” he says. I love you, my son and my brother,” he recalls. She told Acho that his video “showed me I still have a long ways to go. The viewer told him that she didn’t go to school with any Black students but gained more exposure to Black people when she became a flight attendant. One message he received recently came from a 73-year-old woman who grew up in rural Alabama. He created the series to provide a space for people to understand each other - and therefore make the world a better place.įor Acho, teaching white people about race doesn’t feel like a burden because he says it’s his calling. This interaction made Acho realize when white people never ask questions or challenge their thoughts about race, they live with false premonitions. When he suggested attending a Black church, the couple said they thought that would encroach on a safe space for Black people. Two of Acho’s friends, a white couple, recently asked him about how they can solve the problem of lack of exposure to Black people.
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