Netflix’s WhenTheySeeUs is reigniting the conversation around police violence and racism in America and educating a new generation
that had always backed what the boys had been saying since the very beginning: They were innocent.
“It was a long time ago, but these things are still happening every day to Black and brown boys,” Angela Black, the older sister of Kevin Richardson, told MTV News outside the D.A.’s office. “We never had this type of support and a new, fresh generation to fight for change.” The mini-series, she adds, “actually has opened up a chapter that we tried to close in our life, but it's necessary that we keep telling our story. My brother says it's bittersweet because of the love that we receive and the acceptance and just people believing the truth.”reignited the conversation surrounding police violence and racism in America, educating a new generation who may have been largely unfamiliar with the case and driving them towards action.
“[The criminal justice system] works against us,” she said. “It criminalizes Black and brown youth. It tears down Black and brown youth. It doesn't give them a chance to grow up.” Co-organizer of the rally Linda Sarsour, an executive board member of the National Women’s March and a local criminal justice activist with Justice League NYC, also acknowledged the impact the show had on her own activism efforts.reaffirmed for us the story that we already knew, but we didn't know the type of trauma to the level that was depicted in that series,” she said.
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