His hand curled, missing Steve's, but letting him go. He tucked his hands into his lap instead.

"It's... It's just stronger comin' from somebody else sometimes. A white guy's gonna listen to another white guy more often than they'd listen to a black guy, as stupid as that is. So guys like that... they'd listen to a guy they thought was like them. Between that and... that being safer..." Shaking his head, Jim sighed. "It sounds terrible. Probably said everything wrong."