himself welcoming a little brother named marquis. i think once my little brother came into the picture it was more, you know, i realized that it wasn t just the two of us anymore but we re actually starting to become a family. and there were two other stepsiblings in the mix, andre jr. and andrea. and you get along with them? yeah. it was pretty great. i had a brother and a sister at home, and it was a pretty cool experience. another cool experience, for the first time having a dad. he taught me how to swim. he taught me how to throw a football. he even rode me on the back of his motorcycle a few times. it was good to actually have a male figure in the house that i could, you know, do stuff with. so andre was living up to his job as your father? yeah. yeah, he was. for marcus and his mom, everything seemed just perfect. honestly, it was like a complete family. it felt like i
very dangerous current underneath and people don t realize it. you had me on your show on prime time, filling in for jesse waters and we did a segment talking about how mexico is offering free sitting weapons to help people who don t know how to swim. it is very dangerous, are put oprah border patrol in texas national guard consulate putting lives at risk. pete: texas national card, it is standard protocol you have swim training, presumably he knew how to swim himself which is a reminder how perilous it is. here s a statement from the texas military department, we will continue to search for a soldier until we ve exhausted all possible resources, we will notify the next of kin regarding the missing soldier.
family. and there were two other stepsiblings in the mix, andre jr. and andrea. and you get along with them? yeah. it was pretty great. i had a brother and a sister at home, and it was a pretty cool experience. another cool experience, for the first time having a dad. he taught me how to swim. he taught me how to throw a football. he even rode me on the back of his motorcycle a few times. it was good to actually have a male figure in the house that i could, you know, do stuff with. so andre was living up to his job as your father? yeah. yeah, he was. for marcus and his mom, everything seemed just perfect. honestly, it was like a complete family. it felt like i finally had a complete family. it was the best feeling in the world. like the ultimate high. and then suddenly, the ultimate low.
and bearses teach water skills through the youth swim program. one, two, three. coach, it s important for all kids to learn how to swim. but why is it important for black kids to learn how to swim. black kids drown twice as much as any other ethnic group. they didn t have an opportunity. they got rid of the community pool. they filled the pool with c concrete or dirt where i grew up. and that is one of the reasons a lot of black kids didn t learn how to swim. right, the only thing they were able to do is to play in the fire hydrants, and they could sneak in pools at night. when i hear people can t swim, it makes me sad and it also infuriates me. because i know along the way,
was a productive citizen. i raised a good young man. and somebody did this to him. and then they said yesterday, when they read the results to me and giving me their reports, they implied that jelani drove himself to peru, parked his car in this wooded area, walked himself down to this bank and stripped his clothes off and got in this water. my son knows how to swim. my son wouldn t have done this. he was not depressed. he wasn t nothing wrong with him. he carmen about the challenges of his