Donte Robinson and Rashon Nelson: You disappoint me

You disappoint me, and many others. I understand that you're in your early 20's, but at that age you should know better than to let things play out the way they did to resolve your case with the city of Philadelphia.

You were arrested because you were Black, and you didn't want to admit that. You cannot go around being afraid of acknowledging that, and it sure as hell doesn't make you racist. If any of your so-called White friends have a problem with that, then those are not friends. You were in police custody for hours because non-Black police came out to enforce injustice against you.

You disappoint me, and many others. You drop legal claims against the city for a dollar and a $200K fund for an entrepreneurship program. A fund that you will have no control over. A fund you will probably never see an accountability form for, so you won't know where the money will truly go. It's not even $200K per year, is it? That's not a lot of money and if you believe it is, I can only imagine what you agreed to settle with Starbucks for.

You could've settled with Starbucks if you wanted too, but that didn't mean you had to drop the charges against the city. The ball was in your court, and going back to that fund, I do not believe for a minute that the money from an entrepreneurship program will go to benefit even 50% of Black students. You had options and you messed it up. Wouldn't it have made more sense to have some sort of fund in your name through a non-profit foundation (possibly one of your own) where you help predominately Black students? Black business owners have to fight ten times as hard, we need more, and this non-specific program (if it actually launches) would've been better off created by you after you got the money in order to be more specific. I'd like to believe you would've been specific, but something tells me that wouldn't have been the case.

You could've went into partnership with several groomed entrepreneurs to start up a chain of coffee shops, starting off with one that shows them the ropes. If you had the balls to stand firm on the fact that it was injustice against you for being Black, you may have gained a stream of supporters.

You disappoint me, and many others. Get off of the "communication about differences" bullshit, and actually learn more. There have been countless conversations, mountains of proof regarding injustice, but doesn't it still happen? Wasn't Martin Luther King Jr. killed? You disappoint me, and many others because you reinforce the bullshit that Black men and women have to deal with. Starbucks may have offered to cover the remainder of your education, but you need to invest more time in Black history.

If you aren't Donte or Rashon, learn from their mistakes. Capitalize for the betterment of Black people.