McKinley’s life journey has been one full of hardships and obstacles that he’s overcome – his mother abandoned him when he was 5 years old, he never met his father. He grew up in a city once ranked among the nation’s most dangerous cities with little to no stability.
He could have used all of the reasons above to settle for a less-than-ideal-life for himself. But instead, he used it as motivation, thanks to the impact one person made on his life.
That person was his late grandmother, Myrtyle Collins, who he dedicated draft night too after fulfilling the promise he made to her while she was on her deathbed.