'I realized that the silence is the biggest crime that white guys like me, and the rest of us, are doing,' the comedian said
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"Not at the fact that people were trying to cancel me, or cancel the show, which is scary enough, but the thing that haunted me the most was how do I say, 'I love this person, I respect this guy more than I respect most humans, I am not a racist, I don't feel this way,'" he said. "And instead, what I kept getting advised was to just stay quiet and to not say anything. And that's the advice because we're all afraid.
"We need to say something," he insisted. "We need to keep saying something. And we need to stop saying 'That's not okay' more than just one day on Twitter."Fallon said he realized he "needed to get educated about how to stop the silence, and the fear of saying the wrong thing."
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