Are You a Product of Your Environment?

LZ Granderson: What is it that other kids experience that leads to these horrible things like a school to prison pipeline? Like, and what age is do you start to see this sort of people succumbing to their environment versus the ones who transcend it? LZ: I have my own personal perspective growing up in Compton and growing up in an environment family. And luckily, I had a mom who helped me identify that in myself early on. He says he didn't understand that word being or phrase being a product of your environment until he became a firefighter.