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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can understand how this might be traumatizing to watch for Black/POC but it should be mandatory viewing for white people. I am a teacher and this plays out on a smaller scale in schools all the time- Black students are disciplined more often and more severely than their white peers. There  is data backing this up. As teachers, it is so important we buck systems that criminalize black youth, address our own biases, and know how to help keep these kids safe. They face down a system designed to do this to them. It’s real.

It is absolutely heartbreaking to watch, but beautifully told and rendered. If you refuse to watch because it’s hard/not your problem/boring, you are part of the problem. Choosing to be ignorant harms people. [/quote]+1 Also I was living in Central New York when this happened. It was publicized widely and the message was that it was a thing now for teenaged boys to go “wilding” and find women to attack. It was pretty scary. It wasn’t until years later when the young men were vindicated that I started realizing what bullshit that was. Over the years, I’ve learned how distorted my view of the world was and sorry, fellow white people, but I think it’s our civic responsibility to watch this - or if you prefer, Ken Burns’s documentary, “The Central Park Five.”[/quote]

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