00:00Today is May 8th, and today would have been his 26th birthday.
00:03So, we were able to leave our house, run our miles, nobody looked at us crazy,
00:09nobody stopped us, and was able to get my black man home safely.
00:14Unfortunately, we can't say that about mine.
00:17And I can't imagine, cuz many know that I'm a runner.
00:22I couldn't imagine one day getting up to run and
00:25knowing that that is the last time that I will ever see my family.
00:31So much needs to be done, so much more that we need to do.
00:36And as a community, and as black men, we have to know that when we
00:41leave out our house, that it's not our last time.
00:46Today, we run with Ahmaud, and
00:50we send our prayers and blessings to his family.
00:56We want justice for Ahmaud, we want justice for
01:00our black men, for our black boys, we want justice for America.
01:07Definitely look him up, Ahmaud Arbery,
01:11definitely a heavy heart, hearing about his story.
01:17And just doing this in honor of him this morning,
01:22but hopefully, prayerfully, justice will be found for him.
01:30Justice will be found for him.
01:32We're walking for Ahmaud, it's so sad.
01:36It's devastating, it's difficult to even watch, man.
01:40It was two months ago, but it was-
01:42Near Brunswick or something?
01:44Yes, near Brunswick, Georgia, basically a father and
01:48a son were videoing Ahmaud Arbery, and
01:51they were talking about how he was going to be a father.
01:54Near Brunswick, Georgia, basically a father and
01:58a son were videotaped hunting him down like a dog and killing him with a shotgun.
02:03Today would have been his 26th birthday, so
02:06the country is rallying to walk 2.23 miles in honor of him.
02:10So- That's what we're doing.
02:11That's what we're doing today.
02:11So I just finished my run slash walk for my man.
02:18It was 2.23 miles in support of justice for Ahmaud Arbery.
02:26Now, granted, last night we heard the news that those two men,
02:30the father and son that murdered him, were actually charged with,
02:35were arrested for this thing.
02:37So in one sense, it's like, this is, that's awesome.
02:42But in another sense, it's kind of disappointing, right?
02:45Because it took a lot for us to get to this spot.
02:47So my mom told me when I was a kid, and I learned this early,
02:51that if you are not a part of the solution,
02:55then there's a good chance that you're a part of the problem.
02:57And so in one sense, I'm disappointed because it took all of this energy,
03:02all of this effort just to get justice, which is something that we should have already.
03:06Many of us are like, hey, this is not gonna change.
03:09But man, I have to know that there's more, I have to have hope.
03:14And what that means for me is, I would say for our black brothers and sisters,
03:17that means that you're probably gonna have to hug each other a little bit tighter, right?
03:21Like now I'm going to have to have some different conversations with my daughters.
03:25I'm gonna have to love on them just a little bit more.
03:28Because the reality is that this is so real for us.
03:33Injustice is still happening, racism is still happening.
03:36And so what I need to do, it's my responsibility as I'm raising this next generation
03:40to give them a picture of what it looks like to love people,
03:45but what it looks like to also fight for justice.
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