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\"CraigI felt ashamed, actually, for New York. And I also felt extremely angry because their innocence never got the attention that their guilt did. The furor around prosecuting them still drowns out the good news of their innocence.<\/em><\/p>\n

These were five kids who we tormented, we falsely accused, we pilloried in the press, we attacked. We invented phrases for the imagined crimes that we’re accusing them of.<\/em><\/p>\n

And then we put them in jail. We falsely convicted them. And when the evidence turned out that they were innocent and they were released, we gave a modest nod to fairness, and we walked away from our<\/strong> crime…<\/em><\/p>\n

I want us to remember what happened that day and be horrified by ourselves because it really is a mirror on our society. And rather than tying it up in a bow and thinking that there was something that we can take away from it and we’ll be better people, I think what we really need to realize is that we’re not very good people. And we’re often not.<\/em><\/p>\n

–Craig Steven Wilder
\nQuoted in Ken Burns: The Central Park Five<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Image of Craig Steven Wilder taken from one slide in the documentary.<\/div>\n

H\/T: James Fillmore for introducing me to the film.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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