I did a documentary on this about seven years ago on prostate cancer called The Silent Killer. And I was just asked by the director to come in. She thought I had the right feel to host it. And I learned so much about it. I didn't have a horse in the race. But learning about it, traveling five cities across America, having town hall meetings with black men who are the most in danger because of it, and explaining all of the problems that you could have if you don't actually have your checkups on a regular basis, and still hearing some of them say afterwards that they wouldn't have a digital exam.

And I know there are various reasons why. One is people in our community often have a history of not trusting the medical industry because of the Tuskegee experiments. We have a history of saying, we'll walk it off. You're a man. We have a history of saying, we'll let God take care of it. We have all these excuses why we won't do the right thing. And the problem with that is that if you get an exam and you get it caught at an early stages, there is like a 99% that you will survive it and you can be cured of it. But if you don't and you wait until it gets to stage four, then those numbers kind of flip.

I lost my dad to prostate cancer. See what I mean? And what these men don't realize with all of our machismo is that when you are removed from the picture, it doesn't just affect you. It affects the whole community, your whole circle of people. And that's why it's so important for us to not let this be a silent killer.