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FRIENDLY TIES

“We live here in Chicago where racial tension is so high, especially in our neighborhood, which is known to be super racist. It was just great to see two people reacting to each other regardless of color and that's the part that just really makes me happy.”

Bryant, 42, is an Amazon Delivery Service Partner driver and was making a stop at the house recently when he saw the family that lives there gathered around their teenage son, Luke Breier who was getting ready for his high school homecoming. The teen was struggling to secure his tie, so Bryant stepped in to help.

Family members stood around smiling and laughing as he hyped the teenager up and made sure his tie was tidy and in place. “You’re killing the game, young man,” Bryant said to the high school senior in a video shared online. Amazon driver Eligha Bryant delivered more than a package at one Chicago home recently. He dropped some fashion pointers.

“He was clean. He reminded me of myself when I was coming up. That’s how I used to dress," said Bryant, who works for one of Amazon's third-party Delivery Service Partners, or companies that contract drivers to deliver packages.

Bryant, a father of three sons and five girls, said he was passing along knowledge he had learned as a youngster himself. An avid churchgoer since his youth, he often dressed up in nice suits and attended with his mother, father and godparents.

So Bryant learned to tie a tie at the early age of 10. “All the brothers around me showed me how to,” he said. When he saw Breier struggling with his tie, Bryant felt like he should pay it forward...read more