'I realized that the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me, and the rest of us, are doing,' the comedian said
An American Tragedy — Nation Seeks a Way Forward in the Wake of George Floyd's Death "I'm going to start this personally, and then expand out, because that's where we all need to start," he continued.
"With ourselves, and looking at ourselves in the mirror. And I had to really examine myself in the mirror this week, because a story came out about me onFallon said he was "horrified" by what followed. "Not at the fact that people were trying to cancel me, or cancel the show, which is scary enough, but the thing that haunted me the most was how do I say, 'I love this person, I respect this guy more than I respect most humans, I am not a racist, I don't feel this way,'" he said. "And instead, what I kept getting advised was to just stay quiet and to not say anything. And that's the advice because we're all afraid." "I took it for a minute. I took the advice and I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to do this wrong. You're right, I'm going to say something and get myself into even more trouble. I'm going to make this worse. I don't know what to do,'" he continued. "So I thought about it, and I realized that I can't not say, 'I'm horrified and I'm sorry and I'm embarrassed.' What that small gesture did for me was break my own silence, and then what I started to do is talk to some experts, some of which are here tonight and this week, and I realized that the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me, and the rest of us, are doing." "We need to say something," he insisted. "We need to keep saying something. And we need to stop saying 'That's not okay' more than just one day on Twitter."Fallon said he realized he "needed to get educated about how to stop the silence, and the fear of saying the wrong thing." "I need to be, we all need to be, talking about this," he said. "I spoke to someone incredible and brilliant who I think can help us all out in this incredibly sensitive and in-our-face subject that we need to deal with."president Derrick Johnson, noting that he wanted to work on "being a better ally." "We are all born flawed, but flawed is part of the journey that we are on so we can try to get to perfection," Johnson said. "If anyone can stand up and say 'I haven't made a mistake,' run, because that person is clearly a liar."
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