Oscar winner Matthew McConaughey put that very question to former NFL player Emmanuel Acho.

While appearing on Acho’s Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man talk show on YouTube, The Dallas Buyers Club actor asked, "How does someone like me; how can I do better as a human?

How can I do better as a white man?"

The first step to acknowledging is sitting in this chair right here across from a Black man and saying, 'OK, I may not be talking about you Emmanuel Acho, but I may be talking about people who look like you.”

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He continued, "You have to acknowledge implicit bias; you have to acknowledge that you'll see a Black man and for whatever reason, you would view them as more of a threat than the white man - probably because society told them to."