Austin resident and former Longhorn linebacker Emmanuel Acho wants to talk.
It might be uncomfortable, but as he’ll tell you in the first episode of “Uncomfortable Conversations With a Black Man,” that’s the point.
Acho launched a sit-down Youtube series this week featuring himself having virtual conversations with “white America, in order to educate and inform on racism, system racism, social injustice, rioting and the hurt African Americans are feeling today.”
In the first ten-minute video, Acho says he was driven to create the series after many of his white friends reached out asking how they could help during nationwide unrest over police brutality against black Americans and racial injustice in the country.
Among the questions Acho speaks to in the video are “I understand protesting, but why riot?” and “Why do you think white privilege exists?”