The seemingly insignificant Trump news clip from 1989 is anything but insignificant especially given that this man is the President of the US. As the days count down to the November election, it seems appropriate the we pay attention to this particular issue among other matters from his past. To this day Trump stands by his call, refuses to accept the fact that they were innocent despite another man having been found guilty of the crime through DNA matches from the scene. You cannot be a Law and Order president if there is no justice at the heart of it. This is not a movie. This is history.
We have been trying to keep our hearts and minds focussed on the work of colored writers and artists and just watched When They See Us which came out last spring. Ava DuVernay is the director and co-writer of When They See Us, the four part Netflix miniseries about the Central Park Five. The film explores the lives of five black male suspects in the assault and rape of a female New York Central Park jogger in 1989. It also takes the opportunity to show the viewer a few minutes of real live news footage of Donald Trump calling for the death sentence of the wrongly accused boys, in fact paying $85,000 to take out a full page ad in the NYT. This is a movie that exacts a small price of sleeplessness for the rage and sadness in elicits. The five convicted boys spent between 6 and 14 years in prison in this enormous miscarriage of justice.
The seemingly insignificant Trump news clip from 1989 is anything but insignificant especially given that this man is the President of the US. As the days count down to the November election, it seems appropriate the we pay attention to this particular issue among other matters from his past. To this day Trump stands by his call, refuses to accept the fact that they were innocent despite another man having been found guilty of the crime through DNA matches from the scene. You cannot be a Law and Order president if there is no justice at the heart of it. This is not a movie. This is history.
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