It was really starting to hurt me as I watched on Facebook.

Some of these same people who were running in my races or they were signing up for free hugs

for runners, I would see the evil things that they would write about Trayvon Martin, saying

that like he deserved it or whatever.

And that was really hurting me to my core because to me,

I looked like Trayvon Martin and Skittles really are my favorite candy. I would have been the

same kid walking down to the corner store to go and get some Skittles and easily could have been

stalked by this man the same way. And so when I was reading what people were saying about him,

it was like really breaking my heart.

And so I had made a video back then. And I talked about how if Trayvon Martin would have been

given enough time to get to my age, he probably could have done the same thing. But we'll

never know that because his life was cut short.

That video really resonated with a lot of people,

because I was like, if you're not giving black boys enough time

to mature into men, then you're judging them

at a period of their life where we all could have made mistakes.

We all were hot heads.

If you're following me, I might fight you.

I was that same

kid, you know? Who would have known? I grew up to be a father of five and trying to be a change maker

and doing all of these things that like just feel right to me. But I was the same knucklehead kid back

then. And so to see people speaking of him in that way, I was like, but you're judging a boy.

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