If you are reading this, and haven’t already read part one and part two, I highly suggest you go back and read them, as they provide valuable background information and context. By the end of this, I want us as a community to recognize how the criminal justice system is, in fact, not equally just at all, and question how we can make reforms that will genuinely create justice and equality for all people.
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The very presence of a black male is seen as criminal in society today. The first episode of When They See Us makes it clear to the audience that the very action of being black is a crime when the lead investigator demanded that, “Every young black male who was in the park last night is a suspect…”
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Too often, black males are criminalized by the white gaze and seen as threatens to society without justification or fair reasoning.
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