Desmond
Portrait with Sara Stathas
Portrait with Zachary Maxwell Stertz
Gary [Indiana] is a place where I can go and call home, but it’s also a place you don’t really want to be because it’s really… We call it “Scary Gary.”
Well, on the good tip, it’s people who care about you. You have people in the streets who see you down, they help you up. They lift you up. And, like, one thing that I love about Gary is the home baseball games, because it brings everybody together - no matter if you’re a drug dealer, a killer, or just a random person out here.
Well, me wanting to be a lawyer, I would go back home to go to school. So, I would probably go to Notre Dame (University of Notre Dame, Indiana.) I would...be a defense lawyer for all the males who are going through these trials, and they’re being committed to a crime that they didn’t commit. And that might help them thing, if I’m being accused of this, then let me show them I can do different. That second chance could save a life. And that life could save another.
Brotherhood is so important to me, because us as brothers, young, black males, we’ve got to look out for each other. They already stereotype us as not being able to make it. But the more we stand up for one another and we look out for one another, we can always succeed and show people wrong. We can defeat the stereotypes and the hypocrites who talk down on us and try and instill in our head that we aren’t going to ever be nothing.