The Mavericks owner wants the discussion around race and privilege to change after the death of George Floyd.
"I need all of us to really open up and talk to each other, even when it's difficult," Cuban said during his brief speech at the beginning of the event."Even when it's not something we're comfortable with, particularly those of you who look like me, the white people. Because it's hard to discuss race when you're white.
"The reality is, to be brutally honest, when people talk about white privilege, we get defensive. We all have this mechanism that I call manufactured equivalency to try to protect ourselves. We'll say, 'I have a lot of black friends.' We'll say, 'I grew up in a mixed community, so I'm not like that. I can't possibly be someone who takes advantage of white privilege,' and manufacture this equivalency.
"It's incumbent on us to stop doing that, because that doesn't move us forward when we do that. That's part of having a courageous conversation." The topic of privilege and the unequal treatment of black Americans by police has become a major political discussion as calls for police reform are heard across the country., Mavericks CEO Cynt Marshall, Dallas County judge Clay Jenkins and Dallas Police chief Renee Hall. The latter two both called for police reform:
"We need to radically transform the way we do policing in this country and this community," Jenkins said, adding that he'd recently met virtually with activists who had a list of 10 suggested steps.
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