PROTESTS MAY PROMPT DIALOGUE ON RACISM, BUT ‘IT’S GOING TO BE UNCOMFORTABLE’. When Le Hoang Nguyen put up a bright yellow billboard in support of the Black Lives Matter movement in Houston, the pushback from his community, “was immediate, it was vicious, my Facebook wall filled up with just hate speech.” Nguyen’s original idea for the billboard was to thank essential workers for their work during the pandemic, but when George Floyd was killed, he felt strongly about supporting BLM.