00:00Kevon Smith SR was at the Cracker Barrel restaurant in Ohio with his son,
00:04sitting at a table away from the few other patrons there that morning.
00:08In his private corner of the place, the father thought he was out of sight
00:11until he found a note on his car from a couple who had seen everything and weren't shy about
00:15what they witnessed. During the course of his breakfast, Kevon Smith thought that he saw the
00:20couple looking in his direction on occasion but passed it off and went about what he was there
00:25to do, which was more than just grabbing a meal. The father was there alone with his baby boy,
00:30and when he went out to the car, he learned that the Masons had a little piece of advice for
00:35this
00:35father. I noticed this older couple over in the corner, Kevon told Woyo. They kept smiling at me
00:41and I was looking at my son like, what is going on? He figured it out after what they left
00:46with
00:46a strange green no on his windshield, letting him know how unusual he is based on what they saw.
00:52Today your meal is on my wife and me, the note said in part, referring to the cash they left
00:57to
00:57reimburse him for the breakfast. He just paid for that they watched and eat while sweetly
01:01interacting with his baby boy. They decided to go out of their way for this guy as a thank you
01:06for being a good father. We need more black dads like you. The short note closed with these older
01:12parents urging Kevon to enjoy the baby boy as long as God intends. Rather than taking offense to
01:19the black dad comment, Kevon Smith completely agreed that it's an issue, having experienced
01:24it for himself. He explained that because he didn't have a father figure growing up,
01:28he wanted to do things differently and give his child all of his love and attention all of the time.
01:34What he was doing in the restaurant that morning proved how important that is to him.
01:38And he even acknowledged that, there's a lot of guys I know that aren't taking care of their kids.
01:42Not all of us are out here being gangbangers, some of us are out here being fathers, the proud dad,
01:49told the news station. Kevon Smith is proof that blaming poverty and being raised by a single
01:54parent is just an excuse for bad behavior as adults, since that was his upbringing, which he
01:59learned from, rather than repeated. To be a good person is a choice, and Kevon and others out there
02:05like him are who deserve the attention, not the ones who took the wrong path and are bringing people
02:09down with them. Kevon proved that again with his closing thought. I'm definitely going to make
02:15sure I'm paying it forward, he said. I get blessed. I want to bless someone else.
