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How Linda Fairstein’s Lethal Supremacy Is The Perfect Privilege of Whiteness
Watching Ava DuVernay’s harrowing masterpiece When They See Us was a brutal process that I intend to succumb to again in the near future. The immense success of Netflix’s four-part series that centers around the #ExoneratedFive, who had to endure the worst punishment imaginable for being boys of color, with targets on their backs, that made them vulnerable to systemic criminality, is solid proof of how we thrive off of the pure exercise for long-awaited justice.
Oprah Winfrey, who serves as executive producer of the heartrending tale of crime and punishment against five precious souls, who were violently robbed of the privilege of time and youthful indulgence — readily joined forces with her frequent collaborator, the stellar cast, and still traumatized boys who are now men, for a captivatingly in depth interview, that exposed rawness of emotional wounds that will never heal.
For those of us who are members of a community that still has to contend with the realness of police brutality, and the accompanying visuals that float around social media platforms like combusted pellets begging for attention, the sadness from reconciling the hefty debt that will never be paid in full to tormented lives that were made to suffer the unfathomable after that fateful night in 1989 — has been the…
