Thread by @studentactivism

This is such an interesting clip. He's clearly really nervous about saying the wrong thing, using the wrong phrasing, but at the same time he's got something he actually wants to SAY, and so he winds up going for it.

https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1448482714315894786

My gloss on his meaning, by the way, is basically "people from marginalized communities don't trust white guys like me, with good reason, and this shit is a big part of why, and it's my job to try to overcome that." Which is exactly what a white coach should be saying about this.

(If I’d had a few more characters I’d have gone with “often don’t trust” and “this kind of shit.”)

And I don't get the impression he hasn't thought seriously about these issues before now—I get the impression that he's not used to talking about them in public, in front of millions of people, which is different.

And yeah, this is important: The audience for his statement was, in significant part, his team—both the players and the rest of the staff.

https://twitter.com/FrKadel/status/1448773294409363457

One thing I keep circling back to is how he says that it's really hard to build trust with other people, particularly when you're a white guy and the people you're asking to trust you aren't, and how he says it with no rancor. Just as a fact—a result of racist sexist bullshit.

And it's like, yep.