B. Open Impromptu Event Prompts

Round 1 - 10:00

  1. Speaker 1


    1. You can’t separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom. — Malcolm X
    2. You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.  — Indira Gandhi
    3. It is white people’s responsibility to be less fragile. — Robin DiAngelo
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Racism is not getting worse, it’s getting filmed. — Will Smith
    2. It belongs to the very substance of nonviolence never to destroy or damage another person’s feeling of self worth, even an opponent’s. — Bernard Haring
    3. Defining freedom cannot amount to simply substituting it with inclusion. — Monique Morris
  3. Speaker 3


    1. Struggle is a never ending process. Freedom is never really won, you earn it and win it in every generation. — Coretta Scott King
    2. We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.  - Herbert Spencer 
    3. Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.  — Bertrand Russell
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have. — James Baldwin
    2. The beauty of anti-racism is that you don’t have to pretend to be free of racism to be an anti-racist. — Ijeoma Oluo
    3. We’ve come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can’t imagine Dr. King watching the Real Housewives or Jersey Shore.  — Samuel L. Jackson
  5. Speaker 5


    1. If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. - Desmond Tutu
    2. Prejudices are the props of civilization.  — André Gide
    3. We don’t want to see Targets burning. We want to see the system that sets up for systemic racism burned to the ground. — Killer Mike
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Protest is not the end of progress, it is the beginning … — Lizzo
    2. If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies. — Moshe Dayan
    3. If now isn’t a good time for the truth, I don’t see when we’ll get to it.  — Nikki Giovanni

Round 2 - 1:00

  1. Speaker 1


    1. At some point we all have to choose, between what the world wants you to be, and who you are. - Natasha Romanoff 
    2. You never know. You hope for the best and make do with what you get. - Nick Fury
    3. It’s not about saving our world. It’s about saving theirs. – Hank Pym
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Just bury me in the ocean with my ancestors that jumped from the ships, because they knew death was better than bondage. - Erik Killmonger
    2. I can’t control their fear, only my own. – Wanda Maximoff
    3. He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy. – Yondu
  3. Speaker 3


    1. I understand that the council has made a decision, but given that it’s a stupid-ass decision, I’ve elected to ignore it. – Nick Fury
    2. Look, it’s me, I’m here, deal with it. Let’s move on. – James Rhodes
    3. Just because something works, doesn’t mean it can’t be improved. – Shuri
  4. Speaker 4


    1. The world has changed and none of us can go back. All we can do is our best, and sometimes the best that we can do is to start over. - Peggy Carter
    2. You’re ancestors called it magic, and you call it science. - Thor
    3. I have nothing to prove to you. – Carol Danvers
  5. Speaker 5


    1. The world is upside down. People need something to get behind. They need the symbol. - Bucky Barnes
    2. The hardest choices require the strongest wills. - Thanos
    3. Well, I don’t judge people on their worst mistakes. – Natasha Romanoff
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short. - Dr. Strange
    2. You know, I keep telling everybody they should move on and grow. Some do. But not us. - Steve Rogers
    3. Vengeance has consumed you. It’s consuming them. I’m done letting it consume me. – T’Challa

Final Rd - 3:45

  1. Speaker 1


    1. I’m here live.  I’m not a cat.
    2. If you blow in your coffee cup on zoom, everyone will think it’s coffee. *wink
    3. Suddenly all of the old paintings of overweight, naked people, laying on couches makes sense.
  2. Speaker 2


    1. Brian.  You’re on mute.
    2. After years of swearing that I couldn’t clean my house because I didn’t have time, 2020 has proven that may not have been the reason.
    3. First time in history we can save the human race by lying in front of the TV and doing nothing.  Let’s not screw this up.
  3. Speaker 3


    1. When you wake up at 9:58 for your 10:00 zoom class.
    2. Your mission – should you choose to accept it – is to find a roll of toilet paper.
    3. I apologize to every zombie movie ever for saying people going out during a plague was a plot hole.
  4. Speaker 4


    1. Just started talking to my cat in a 68 person zoom meeting and I wasn’t on mute.
    2. I’m starting to miss people I don’t even like.
    3. It makes me uncomfortable that someone in your zoom class can just stare at you the entire time without you knowing.
  5. Speaker 5


    1. Not muting your mic is the new reply all.
    2. I’ve learned that two hours of zoom school is far worse than eight hours of normal school.
    3. That feeling when zoom automatically logs you off after 40 mins because no students showed up to your office hours.
  6. Speaker 6


    1. Not to brag, but I was social distancing way before Covid showed up.
    2. Of all the lessons I learned in grade school, avoiding cooties was the last one I thought I’d need.
    3. I find it so mature that every guy I was talking to is socially distancing themselves from me.  I really know how to pick ‘em.
  7. Speaker 7


    1. The end meeting for all is the most powerful button of all.
    2. And in an unsettling reversal of my teenage years, I am now yelling at my parents for going out.
    3. You think it’s bad now?  In 20 years, the country will be run by people who were homeschooled by day drinkers.