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Closer Than They Appear

What's next? (with Alexis Frank)

Closer Than They Appear

Al Jazeera

News, Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8626 Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2017

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared? Can we move forward together as a country? In our Season 1 finale, Carvell Wallace reflects on his journey, connects with his kids about their vision for the future, and gathers insight from Alexis Frank, a 27-year old army veteran who wants to make political change.

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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.

0:23.4

Find out on the next true crime reports.

0:28.6

Subscribe and listen wherever you get your podcasts.

0:41.2

How do you feel about the future? Do you feel hopeful? Do you feel scared?

0:55.0

I feel hopeful, but I also feel like the people in power are corrupt. And I know we like to think of this country as being democratic and free.

1:04.0

But like right now, the whole like concept of American democracy is being threatened.

1:10.0

So that's why i'm definitely pretty

1:12.1

scared but i'm also like hopeful that we can resist and not have that happen what do you guys do

1:20.6

on a daily basis like about it like what do you feel like if anything you that you can do on a daily

1:26.1

basis about it um on a daily basis about it?

1:35.9

On a daily basis, I think that, honestly, the thing that I can do right now in my life is to go into school and to sit there and to actually learn what I need to learn and I need to read

1:39.9

because knowledge is power.

1:41.4

And the more knowledge I have, the more power I have.

1:52.4

I'm Carvel Wallace, and this is closer than they appear.

1:56.3

And those were my kids, Georgia and Ezra.

2:06.5

It's a thin and easy story to shake our hands and say that we adults have messed up the world and left the children with an undue burden.

2:10.2

But that's as true today as it was when I was a kid.

2:13.2

And so how does such a thought actually help?

2:17.1

Isn't that just another way of adults throwing up their hands and saying,

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