It’s Armistice Day, November 11th, in thenation's capital. It is a brisk day at Arlington National Cemetery. Dignitaries stand silently on the third anniversaryof the ending of World War I, watching as a single white casket is lowered into a marbledtomb. In attendance is President Calvin Coolidge,former President Woodrow Wilson, Supreme Court Justice (as well as former President) WilliamHoward Taft, Chief Plenty Coups, and hundreds of dedicated United States servicemen. As the casket settles on its final restingplace in the tomb, upon a thin layer of French soil, three salvos are fired. A bugler plays taps and, with the final note,comes a 21 gun salute. The smoke clears and eyes dry as the UnknownSoldier from World War I is laid to rest; the first unknown soldier to be officiallyhonored in this manner in American history. The United States’ allies in World War I,France and Britain, were the first countries to practice the concept of burying an “unknownsoldier.” World W...
I took a cell phone and accidentally made myself famous. (Laughter) I was just talkingabout the things that I cared about, but with the click of a button and an incendiary viral video I propelled myself into overnight stardom. When I say overnight, I mean I literally woke upthe next morning with so many notifications on my phone, I thought I sleptthrough a national tragedy. (Laughter) It was the craziest thing, guys, but when it came to my influenceand my exposure, I literally took a quantum leap. So I made more videos and the subject matter of my videos was often the most divisive subjectin American life, but it was the way that I articulated race that made me somewhatof a digital lightning rod. See, being a survivor myselfof police brutality and having lost a childhood friend, Alonzo Ashley, at the hands of the police, I had a little somethingto say about the topic. You see, this was at the heightof the Black Lives Matter furor and people seemed to be turningto me to artic...