officer has his knee on my neck choking me out. so my biggest thing is making it back home regardless. anything that s going on outside, you know, i love my family. i love my baby more. and that s a feeling you re going to feel, mr. cooper, like get home. even when your eyes feel like they re about to pop out. you get home to your baby. and that joy and that feeling that you get from that baby, you feel that. to the participants in this bam circle two of the circumstances are still in their teens and both say they feel like they risk their lives every time they leave their homes. when you think about being in school is this something you have to worry about not necessarily the police but shootings, violence, you know,
a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be, and plus secret service still follows me around so i m pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. one of the things that inspires former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. hey, people! hey, hey. it s called a b.a.m. circle. b.a.m. stands for becoming a man. it s a program that started in chicago in 2001 to mentor and support boys and young men. how s everybody doing? the idea is to create a place for them to safely and honestly share their struggles and successes. issues at home, in school or on the streets. president obama first joined a b.a.m. circle back in 2013. that s when he met high school students james adams, lazarus daniels, and christian champagne. today in the same classroom they sat in eight years ago at the
didn t find his way until his late teens. he writes about that as well as how he balanced governing with being a husband and a dad in his recently published book a promised land. we dropped in on the former president in chicago, in a high school where he was visiting with a group of young men who have been part of my brother s keeper to talk about their lives and the challenges they face. are you going back to community organizing? well, you know, probably i m a little too gray-haired and old to be going door to door like i used to be, and plus secret service still follows me around so i m pretty disruptive. but i am going back to what inspired me to get into public life. one of the things that inspires former president barack obama these days are meetings like this one. hey, people! hey, hey. it s called a b.a.m. circle. b.a.m. stands for becoming a
are about to pop out, get home to your baby and that joy and that feeling that you get from that baby, it s amazing. it gives you a little spark of energy. i just love that baby smell, i want to bury my face in it. not before a diaper change. that s most important to me, to make it home regardless of the police, they don t know me from a can of paint. two of the participants in this b.a.m. circle are still in their teens. one is 14. he wants to become a visual artist when he grows up. kinsly is 15 and dreams of being an actor or dancer. they both say they feel like they risk their lives every time they leave home. when you think about being in school, is this something you have to worry about, not necessarily police, just shootings, violence, you know, generally is that something that you think about? or is it something that is not
feeling that you re going to feel, mr. cooper, look get home even when your eyes feel like they are about to pop out, you get home to your baby and that joy and that feeling that you get from that baby, it s amazing. it be your little spark of energy. i love the baby smell. i want to bury my face before a diaper change, right? that s mostly important to me, making it home regardless of the police. they don t know me from a can of paint. how about you guys? two of the participants in this bam circle are in thirteens. norman is 14 and wants to become a visual artist. mccarthy is 15 and dreams of being an actor or dancer and say they feel like they risk their lives every time they leave their homes. when you think about being in school, is this something you have to worry about? not necessarily police but just shootings, violence. you know, generally is that something that you think about