Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston.

Welcome to Kind World.

I'm Andrea Aswahi.

And I'm Yasminammer.

Look, to be perfectly honest, making our show has been very difficult these last two weeks.

We've been really struggling to find the right words

when so many people in our nation are hurting. But maybe the best thing we can all

do right now is listen. We all need to listen to people who've long suffered from the same racism

and violence that cost Ahmad Arbury, Brianna Taylor, and George Floyd their lives.

Their stories reverberated across the country

because they reminded so many other black Americans

of their own personal experiences, even when the outcome wasn't fatal.

My name is Sean Drum Gool.

I'm 29 years old and I live in Nashville, Tennessee.

Sean was raised in South Nashville.

He still lives in the same house he grew up in with his grandmother.

When I grew up, it was a mostly black community. I could walk about myself to Aunt Lily's

house or I held his house without any worry. I could ride my pink and purple bike.

Yes it was pink and purple.. Yes, it was pink and purple.

As a kid, it was that safe.

That started to change when Sean was a teenager.

There's one incident that still stands out to him

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