Grant Winstead
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I had no way out.
My mother had died when I was 16, and my father was 65 years old when she died, and she was 40.
And we were born and I was born in a working class Western Pennsylvania neighborhood.
It was a majority of all white neighborhood.
We were the only black family in that neighborhood.
And work was my way out.
There was no other way out.
I didn't do well in school.
I was allowed to play sports, was mediocre in that, played football, baseball, blah, blah, blah, blah.
After my mother died, I kind of lost my way.
We lived 60 miles outside the city.
We had cousins in the city.
And every now and then, I would find myself down in the city.
Just hanging out with my cousins and whatnot.
And this particular night, I met a young man.
He had a BMW, well-dressed, African-American male.
And he was kind of impressive.
And the first thought you get...
this guy's a drug dealer, you know.
He was surrounding himself by a lot of people, and I was kind of impressed with him.