Was in the system, is personal with Michael, called me if I was so humbled and honored to be a part of the project.

But doing this right is personal, being a black man, and, uh and the perception of us in America is that we've already were guilty of a crime and I could personally touched because my father, they put my father in jail for $25 worth of illegal substance.

They put him in jail for seven years.

This'll man was an educator in the hood in the inner cities, educating kids, the judge that he would have come to the school and talk to the kids, presided over his case and put him in jail.

And then what they didn't understand was that father taught me everything, told me how to throw a football of basketball, taught me how to play tennis.

And I was like, Why not learn how to play tennis?

Because I don't want you to be limited.

So me as a young black kid in Texas, some of my childhood heroes with Venus Carol Itis a Linda Stasi, Yannick Noah, Yvonne Lendl.

So when they put him in jail, however, what what do we do is a family and I don't like visit in jail.

I don't like that type of perception.

And so I said, I told my Pops, I can't come see you because I see you as a king.

But I wrote him.

I wrote him a letter.

I said, Hey, you know, things have gotten good for me When you get out, I'll save your life.

And he's been living with me for 20 years now, saying Theo on Here's the good part about it.

He loved tennis, so I got a chance to take him to the U.

S.

Open when he got out and we watched Venus and Serena play and we sat there and tears ran down our cheeks.

But when he got a chance to see this movie, he said, You tell that the young brother Michael B.

Jordan, keep doing what he's doing because this is so important for us.

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