Watch This Designer's Conversation With Keedron Bryant, the 12-Year-Old Boy Who Went Viral for His Song Inspired by George Floyd's Murder

From House Beautiful

"I’m a young black man doing all that I can to stand. Oh, but when I look around and I see what’s being done to my kind every day, I’m being hunted as prey. My people don’t want no trouble. We’ve had enough struggle. I just want to live. God, protect me. I just want to live. I just want to live."

These are the powerful words that 12-year-old Keedron Bryant sang last week in a song, inspired by the murder of George Floyd, that moved many to tears and quickly went viral. The song, written by Keedron's mother, Johnetta Bryant, put into words the fear that many Black Americans experience every day as they are killed in staggeringly disproportionate numbers by police.

Within hours, Keedron's video had racked up comments by the likes of Barack Obama, Oprah Winfrey, Lupita Nyong'o and LeBron James, and Keedron, who previously appeared on the NBC show Little Big Shots had amassed nearly 300,000 Instagram followers. On Wednesday evening, the young star and his mother joined Kesha Franklin for the daily Instagram Live she hosts on her Halden Interiors account.

“What pierced my heart was when I hear Mr. Floyd call out for his mom,” Johnetta Bryant tells Franklin about her decision to write the song. She put her feelings into song and, as she recalled on The Today Show, waited until she and Keedron had talked and prayed about it to record him singing it.

“When I did the video I didn’t know it would go viral, so it’s been really exciting to see people sharing and commenting,” Keedron tells Franklin.

Throughout the course of the video, Franklin and the Bryants have an inspiring conversation about faith (both of Keedron’s parents are ministers and he began singing in church), race, and talking about its impact.

“We are always having this conversation with our kids,” Johnetta says. “It never stops.”

Watch the conversation below:

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