mobanmarketMichael B Jordan told the men known as the Central Park Five that he cannot watch footage of the new series ‘When They See Us’ without getting emotional and feeling like as a young black man he too could have faced a similar ordeal.
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“It’s dangerous in America when you’re living in a black body,” Jordan said.
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Jordan praised the men — Yusef Salaam, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Raymond Santana and Korey Wise — for their perseverance and courage during a luncheon in which the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California honoured Netflix’s series about their case.
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“The whole time that these men were incarcerated, they never changed their story,” he said. “They insisted of their innocence even as they did their time.”
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Salaam cried as he accepted an award on behalf of series creator Ava DuVernay.
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“I’m not ashamed to cry in front of you,” Salaam said after a moment of silence as he reflected on how he and the other men were “just boys” between the ages of 13 and 16 years old when they were wrongfully convicted.
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“Our story is a story of an egregious miscarriage of justice,” he added.
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Jordan hugged Salaam, who also spoke on behalf of the five men.
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“That’s courage,” said Jordan, whose performances have ranged from his acclaimed portrayal of a young black man killed by a police officer in ‘Fruitvale Station’ to the vengeful Erik Killmonger in ‘Black Panther.’
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Salaam and the rest of the Central Park Five were exonerated in 2002 after being charged with the 1989 rape of a white woman in New York’s Central Park. They received a standing ovation while accepting the ACLU chapter’s inaugural Roger Baldwin Courage Award. Baldwin was one of the ACLU’s founders and its first executive director.
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