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\"White kids were happy when the cops showed up, and my heart always started pounding,\" he detailed. \"There's a part of this that people who don't grow up in that you just can't comprehend. You just can't comprehend what it feels like to feel like you live in an occupied territory.\"

In the wake of George Floyd's death, Smith hopes that people of different races will come to understand the unique struggles of the Black community and work together to solve them.

\"The entire globe has stood up and said to the African American people, 'We see you and we hear you. How can we help?'\" said Smith, who says this development is profound because \"we've never been there before.\"

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