Browsing: I don’t know the family in the video any more than I know Stephen A. Smith. I do know that you’re not an ally just because people from marginalized groups are in your orbit.

       For a split second, I felt sorry for Stephen A. Smith. But then the outspoken ESPN journalist and political commentator provided a lesson about allyship and representation that caused the solitary tear I could have shed to roll back up into my eye socket.