We never really thought we would do a second season of school colors.

The first season was about Central Brooklyn.

That's where both of us live and work, and the show was inspired by our commitment to our community.

Little did we know, the seeds of season two were planted even before the first season was finished.

In the fall of 2019, as season one was still rolling out, we started doing local events to get the word out about the show.

On 1 night in November, we spoke at an elementary school in Betts-Dye.

In the audience, there was a mom from Queens.

She was a tall white woman, and I would say a little intense.

Her name was Athena Basin.

I showed up and I waited until you guys were getting bombarded by other people and I just walked up to you and I was like, hey.

She had come to tell us about a crisis that was brewing in District 28.

We didn't even know where District 28 was.

But earlier that year, they'd been chosen to receive a diversity planning grant.

And Athena had started to see what she thought was racial intolerance.

Coming out of the woodwork before the planning process had even begun.

As I remember it, she wanted us to talk to people in the district, to intervene somehow.

I have to say there was a certain desperation about her.

Yeah, it was, it's desperation, I think, because I felt that this was something that was an opportunity for our district.

And not only our district, I just thought it was an opportunity.

And I saw that opportunity almost immediately being obstructed.

And that made me both angry and afraid.

Athena and her husband both grew up in the Bronx.

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