The Central Park 5—We Are Free

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8 • 880 Ratings

🗓️ 2 July 2023

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Dr. Yusef Salaam is on his way to a seat on Harlem’s City Council. A stark turnabout for one of the famous Exonerated Central Park 5. They lost their freedom, their dignity, and their lives but they persevered and now they’re truly free. Salaam and Raymond Santana talked to me just before the release of the film When They See Us, a film by Ava Duvernay that told their story. We talk about everything in this amazing interview. Toure Show Ep 76: The Central Park 5 - We Are Free Original Air Date: June 19, 2019 Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How does it feel like to not get an apology?
0:14.8	Does that bother you?
0:15.7	That bothers me and that's a slap in the face.
0:17.8	That adds insult to injury because here you are saying, we're going to pay you some money
0:22.3	so that you can go away.
0:25.9	Yeah.
0:26.4	Be quiet and sit over there and go on the beach and sit mites.
0:30.1	But if you're going to do that, then you'll be quiet also.
0:33.3	Right?
0:33.5	If you're going to pay us, then don't have Linda Fairsting still coming out talking junk.
0:38.7	She's very loud.
0:40.1	Very loud.
0:41.2	Yeah.
0:41.6	What do you want to happen to Linda Fairsteen?
0:45.6	It's above me now.
0:49.7	The story of the Central Park Five is one of the most important stories in modern American life.
0:56.0	It exposes how little black life matters in America.
1:00.3	In 1989, in New York City, five black and brown teenagers were arrested for a crime they did not commit.
1:08.0	The vicious rape and brutal beating of a white female jogger in New York City's
1:13.4	most famous park. They were 14, 15, and 16 years old, but because they were young, black,
1:19.8	and brown males from the hood, few people believed their innocence. There was no physical evidence
1:26.2	linking them to the crime and the confessions
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