Judy Shepard

I chose this video because it was different to many of the videos I watched on YouTube. It brought a new perspective on Matthew which I found interesting. His mother is speaking 10 years after the incident, and she speaks about how Matthew is just a regular guy, and it'd be wrong of her to make him "something that he was not". She does not want to turn him into a symbol because there are so many people out there that have experienced the same kind of hatred that Matthew experienced, and aren't getting the media attention that he received. She isn't glorifying him or creating a hero out of him or even talking about the tragedy of what happened, she's just speaking of her memories of Matthew, which I think is a refreshing way to look at something that was so terrible and had to be so hard for her.