On the whole, I think black men are far more persuasive on this issue than any other race, if only because of the way that they’re able to communicate, especially to large crowds like this man. He won’t accept being told to shut up and sit down, and if he is told that, he’ll only become more outspoken, and he won’t rest until his message is heard by as many of his fellow Chicagoans as possible, and probably won’t stop until the crisis has been addressed. He could be dragged out by police, but he’d be speaking the entire time, and probably continue his message in widely-televised interviews. I honestly wish I could speak like this, but I can’t. Public oration is a gift from God, he’s been blessed with it, and now he knows why he has this power, and has risen to the moment to make use of it. City leaders know that if they have him dragged out and roughed up, the entire city would rally around him. You can’t stop a force like that.
