[ Their perspectives would not be so different. Sam lives in Louisiana, a state riddled to this day with reminders of the slave trade. The bayou is full of long forgotten, no longer maintained slave graves, and even some modern graveyards remain segregated. A constant reminder that the color of Sam's skin makes him and his people less than in the eyes of many, stolen from their motherland and brought into New Orleans to be chained and collared and put to work. It's impossible to forget the ways in which his country failed him and his people, when the family business his sister runs is the first thing the Wilson family ever owned after they were freed. And they suffer to this day for it.

Every inch of progress and freedom won the hard, long way, and their fight is far from over.

Sam wants to build a better future for his nephews, for other kids like them. He's just not willing to make orphans of other kids on the way. ]

Better than the people who step on the necks of others to get ahead. If we take the orb at the expense of the people here, how's it make us better than anyone else who steps on the disenfranchised? Can't make things better for some by making it a whole lot worse for others.