BARRON wants to be a LIGHT for others
Growing up in Prichard, Alabama, Mark Barron didn’t have someone to look to as an example, someone who could be the person he aspired to be one day.
It didn’t deter him from having a dream. And in his mind, a dream that would be a reality one day. The dream was to play football, not just high school or college but in the National Football League.
But where he grew up, in the Bessemer projects, that dream was far from the reality he saw daily.
“Nobody around me ever had made it,” said Barron. “Nobody from those projects made it.
“When I was growing up there were a few guys who almost made it but didn’t. The one guy I did see, he got kicked out of college. He went to Auburn and got kicked out. That was it.”
Barron knew he could have taken the “easy” way out. He knew he didn’t have to work at his dream. That he could have gone down the same path so many of his friends and those he knew took.
“Everybody that I possibly could have looked up to sold drugs,” said
