Our nation is facing a challenge, unlike it's faced in decades. There is anger,

there's frustration, there's fear, there's exhaustion.

And the question is, how do we get through this?

Most people want to talk to Curtis Martin

because of his football career.

But I wanted to talk to Curtis because of the way he sees the world,

the way he understands people, the way he goes through life. The insights he has, the lessons

he's learned, I think will help us navigate as we go through this

Together because we have to get through this together. This is a bit of optimism.

Curtis, I have so much respect for the way you see the world and you're, to me, you're like a monk. You have such a calmness, but also such insight into how people work and how the world works. And given everything that our nation is going through right now,

you're one of the first people I wanted to talk to

to find out how you feel about everything,

what you're thinking about.

Yeah, well you know Simon the one thing that I think I feel is something different right?

There's been other situations like Trayvon Martin,

Biana Taylor, Eric Garner.

And those are something that if you're in a black community,

they resonate with you.

But I don't know what it is, and I'm not saying that their death was... with you

but I don't know what it is and I'm not saying that their deaths was any different than George Floyd's but I do think that there's just something a little different.

I think there's a different fire. I think that black people in black communities when you see a cop kneeling on

another black man's neck like that it does something to you because most of us, especially the males in the black community, we've had some type of experience where we know that that could have very easily been us.

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