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70 DECEMBER 2020 I N - D E P T H Organization, a multifaith social justice network, in 2013, leading implicit bias training to help participants become aware of and push back against the subtle ways racism has infiltrated their own attitudes and behaviors. Still, he resisted actively protesting, he says, because he didn't want his children to see taking to the streets as the best way to resolve problems. It is fitting, then, that it was also concern for his children that eventually propelled Bennett to action. In 2015, a grand jury in Cleveland declined to indict the police officer who shot and killed Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy playing with a toy gun in a park. Listening to the news on the radio, Bennett's son told his father, in tears, "They should just tell us being Black is criminal—that way we won't look for anything." "I broke," Bennett says. "Something inside me that Saturday shattered. For him to feel like this country doesn't value him, that his color sends a criminal message, I couldn't live with that." He decided it was time to throw himself into the struggle. Today, he doesn't shy away from vocal, public action on behalf of his cause. He does speaking engagements, records videos, Bennett and youth leaders Jereme Harris-Walker and Sharday Taylor 4 M A R K E T S T R E E T | I P S W I C H J E W E L R Y ✷ C L O T H I N G ✷ G I F T S B E T S Y F R O S T D E S I G N . C O M H O L I D AY M E M O R I E S v i n t a g e o r n a m e n t c o l l e c t i o n O Northshore Magazine ad v10 11.12.20.indd 1 11/12/20 12:02 PM