Ivan McClellan

It's been featured in magazines and published in a book.

And I've seen the figure of the black cowboy elevated in film and television.

And it's become a part of a narrative about identities in the West.

But I do this so that my kids, when they draw a picture of a cowboy, they'll color it in with a brown face.

And I'll do it so that I'll never again forget that this is a part of who I am as a black man in America.

Thank you.