Why Speaking the Truth Still Shakes the Room

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“Why Speaking the Truth Still Shakes the Room”

By: [Devon T. White] The Wilson Block Magazine

“White society hates to hear anybody, especially a Black man, talk about the crime the white man has perpetrated on the Black man.”

This statement isn’t about hate—it’s about history. It’s about truth. And it’s about the discomfort that comes when that truth refuses to be buried.

Throughout America’s timeline, Black men have been punished—not just for resisting oppression, but for daring to name it. From slavery to segregation to mass incarceration, we have lived through systems engineered to deny us not just freedom, but voice. And when a Black man speaks with clarity about the injustices woven into the fabric of this nation, the reaction is often swift and defensive.

Why? Because truth, when spoken by the people it was used against, is powerful. And power—real, conscious, spiritual power—can’t be controlled.

To talk about what has been done to Black people in this country is not to dwell on the past. It is to hold the present accountable. It is to trace the impact of generations of systemic violence that have left scars on our communities, our families, and our futures.

But this is not a message of blame. This is a call for truth. For courage. For reckoning.

The voices of Malcolm X, James Baldwin, Angela Davis, and so many others were not dangerous because they lied—they were dangerous because they told the truth without apology.

In today’s world, sanitized conversations and filtered history make comfort more valuable than justice. But we cannot afford to be silent to preserve anyone else’s ease. Our healing, our survival, and our liberation depend on truth being told—boldly, beautifully, and unapologetically.

White society may not want to hear it. But we’re not speaking to seek their permission. We’re speaking because the truth belongs to all of us—and it must be told.