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It’s time to take a break for tech... Forget Apple, Google, Amazon, and the tech giants. There are more important things to deal with right now. Black lives matter, and it’s up to us - every single person in American and around the world - to make sure that nobody ever forgets that, pushes that aside, or tries to take that away from them.
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What's going on everybody? Ian here for Cult of Mac, and for the last few weeks I've really
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been struggling to find that spark, that fire, that passion to work on making videos, and
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right now it all kind of seems irrelevant anyway. You know, the apps that I use to get
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things done on an iPad, the review that I have for a little mobile video rig, or even
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whether or not you should buy the iPhone SE all seem irrelevant right now, or at least
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they should. You know, as a nation, we've spent the last two or three months kind of
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living a life that's very different from normal. But with the recent murder of George Floyd
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in Minneapolis by a white police officer, well, three other officers stood by and watched
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him slowly suffocate for nine minutes, really kind of shows how utterly screwed up normal
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is. Because truthfully, black Americans deserve to live a life not surrounded by the fear
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of police, or the pain and suffering of having a loved one taken by those who claim to serve
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and protect. Now, I grew up in a small town in Iowa. Currently, that town is something
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like 90% white, and I can assure you that 15 to 20 years ago when I lived there, it
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was even less diverse. But a small part of that diversity in that small rural Iowa town
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included my two adopted black siblings. But even with that, I rarely felt like I saw any
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kind of racism in that community. It wasn't something I was even exposed to or really
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made aware of in that community. Because it's just how a small community is. You know, everybody
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knows everybody, the police are very much members of the community who everyone knows
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by name and by sight. And the same goes for them, and the residents of the community
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So I never really saw racism in my community. But I was also raised to not really think
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of race that way, considering I had siblings that were very much different than me. I never
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felt the need to worry when I grew up about race. It wasn't something I thought about
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But as I've gotten older and moved out of that small town, and now live in a metropolitan
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area, and now that my siblings also have gotten older and moved out of that small town and
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both live in different cities in the Midwest, bigger cities in the Midwest, I'm far more
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aware of what's going on in our nation now and what has been going on in our nation this
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whole time, really, but especially recently. And with the events that happen in Minneapolis
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with everything that's going on in the nation right now, politically, societally, culturally
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with the pandemic hitting, disproportionately hitting poor minority communities, I'm seeing
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more and more the disparity between being white and being anything other than white
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So as I've become more aware of the disparity in our country, I'm increasingly concerned
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for the well-being of my brother and my sister, my niece and nephew, their friends, their
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roommates, their neighbors, and really anyone who shares those same dark-skinned genetics
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And I'm concerned because they were born black, and in the eyes of so many in our country
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and in the eyes of the systems around our country, educational system, the housing system
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the justice system around our country, it has been proven time and time again that their
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lives matter less than those who are white. And I can say for certain that that is inarguably
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patently, absolutely false. Nothing can bring back a life, and nothing can undo the past
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but we have spent too much time as a nation normalizing this kind of racial inequity
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racism, aggressive behavior, whether intentional or unintentional. We've allowed it to go on
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for far too long. Just look at the constant stream of police brutality that's transpired
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in the last two weeks, a week and a half, since the peaceful protests began. So as we
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shift from one national crisis to another, we can't go back to how things were before
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We can't go back to that normal that everybody seems to crave at this point. The only way
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we can move forward is a new normal, a changed normal, because it's time for equality, equity
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and justice for blacks in America. It's time for police to be held accountable for their actions
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and their inactions. And not just the officers in Minneapolis, but every officer who has used
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aggressive force during these protests, or against blacks around America for the last 70 years. And
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it's time as a nation that we treat black lives the same way we treat white lives. Because saying
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all lives matter is only true if black lives matter
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