What can I give? (with Eva Paterson and Aunt Bea)

Closer Than They Appear

Al Jazeera

News, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2017

⏱️ 39 minutes

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How do you stand against evil, but not the evildoer? How do you go to war for what's right with love for the people you're fighting? Carvell Wallace talks with legendary civil rights lawyer and activist Eva Paterson. And at long last, he also reconnects with his Aunt Bea — the white woman who partially raised him — for the first time in nearly 20 years.

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0:00.0	This week on True Crime Reports.
0:04.0	George Stinney was the youngest American in the 20th century to be electrocated to death.
0:09.3	He was accused of murdering two white girls without any evidence.
0:12.9	What does his story tell us about the US justice system and the ways it continues to systematically fail African Americans. Find out on the next
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0:40.3	You said I could ask questions. What is on your arm?
0:43.3	Oh, this is, I love that you asked that.
0:45.3	This is the tattoo of my mother's name.
0:47.3	Oh, that's so sweet.
0:50.3	She died.
0:51.3	Parthenia?
0:52.3	Parthenia, yeah.
0:53.3	You should like put like red roses or something. She died. Parthenia. Parthenia, yeah. You should, like, put, like, red roses or something.
0:56.8	She would love that.
0:57.9	Yeah.
0:59.8	Where was she born?
1:01.1	She was born in McKeesport, the same town that I was born in.
1:04.0	Oh, when?
1:04.4	How old?
1:04.7	Oh, she was born in 1953.
1:07.5	She was born in separate, but equal was the law.
1:10.0	That's right.
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