 Change is inevitable, but as in the rest of America, what form that change will take is much less clear. Annie Jean Hicks. I'm not lying about the stuff. We're not lying about the stuff that we went through. But if you haven't experienced it, you can't tell me that it does not exist. I have been through it. I know it because I felt it and I saw it. So, I mean, don't tell me racism doesn't exist.