Raising Grandparents: The Impact on My Childhood and Identity

The video begins by discussing the speaker's experience of being raised by their grandparents and the challenges they faced. A more attention-grabbing introduction could be achieved by sharing a gripping personal anecdote related to the topic.

How was that feeling thinking you'd been raised by your mom and dad not finding out it was your grandparents The situation would have been better if the household was what it was supposed to be in a traditional you know grandparents were they was taking care of the kids and everything like that But my grandfather was a gambler he was a street guy He worked every day but he had a real bad gambling problem He used to gamble with Sonny Liston and a lot of other people that were in the mob and stuff like that you know people with bad guys in St Louis Missouri So you hardly ever seen him but then when you saw him nine times out of ten you was getting a beating It was pretty bad growing up with him but it made you strong and made me who I am today Do you think that shapes you as a kid who you are later on in life with the stuff that you go through It depends on who else you meet in life I met a man named Willie Drake Sr He was a guy who was in the armed forces from Philadelphia raising his family on the block that her mother lived at And he taught me what it was to be a man and whatever happened to me as a child let that stuff go and become a man that you wanna be And that's putting in the work that you wanna do to be who you want to be