Sunday Stroll 11 | Who Are You When Culture Has Been Telling You Who to Be?

Your Effin’ Love Story · Nov 8, 2026 · 32m · transcript

I've been thinking about culture — what it means to be born in this country to Black parents, to be taught what a man is, to have a worldview handed to me before I had any say in it. My father wanted me to play football because that's what manly looked like. I was good at it and I hated it. When I tore up my knee and the paramedics came onto the field, he told them there was nothing wrong with me.

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