![]() In my personal experience learning poetry in school was a complete drag. Despite the wave of modern poetry that has recently taken the world by storm it is still a completely underappreciated art form amongst young people. This is one of the most important young adult novels of this generation because not only does it touch on racial injustice but it is written completely in verse. But going forward I can only try to do better, to read better, so this is what led me to Punching The Air. I sobbed for Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise, and Yusef Salaam (the Exonerated Five who were falsely accused of the assault of a jogger in New York City’s Central Park). If people of colour have to live in fear for their lives in the streets every day I can watch a miniseries that is only going to illicit a fraction of the pain POC suffer through every single day (I also read and watched The Hate U Give, and 13th in the same weekend-more tears but more self education). But as #BLM was hitting our screens with rightful rage once more, I decided I had to be a big girl and face the truth. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Admittedly, I had avoided the series for a while as I was not ready to confront the harsh realities and I wanted to protect myself from the hurt I knew I would face. I watched When They See Us at the height of the Black Lives Matter movement when anger and upset was reignited by the murder of George Floyd on the 25th of May 2020. ![]()
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