Ty Smith: The Biggest Threat When I Was Growing up Were From People that Looked Like Me

EXCERPT:

SMITH: "They’ve got you focused on something else while something else behind your back is going on. Everything that’s happening right now, again, I don’t care if anybody wants to agree with me or not, I lived this stuff. The biggest threat to me when I was growing up was somebody that looked exactly like me. I never had no threat from any white police officer or any white person whatsoever. And to get myself through school like I did, there was no system there that they claim that was there, I’m sorry, I'm just calling it like it is. Now, back in the day, slave days and pre-Civil Rights Movement, I get that. But in today’s world? Absolutely not. All they're doing is keep on handing folks walkers."