Blackmon, one of approximately 20 African-Americans on the Cougar football team, says he took his teammate to neighborhoods where Henderson was the only white person around, so the honors student who served his mission in Helsinki, Finland, could feel what it was like to be stared at for no apparent reason, much as Blackmon says he is in Utah.
Blackmon showed Henderson where drug deals were going down, where he could hear police sirens almost every hour of the day.
"I love my teammates at BYU, but most of them just can't relate to me," said Blackmon.