Yusef Salaam--one of the Central Park Exonerated Five--discusses Forgiveness — Transcript
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- 0:00tell you i found out that a thing like
- 0:02forgiveness as as an example
- 0:05of where we can go with
- 0:07being able to get out of being bitter
- 0:10forgiveness is for you
- 0:12it's for you to be able to surgically
- 0:14cut yourself from the ball and chain
- 0:17that is holding you back
- 0:19you know it's one of those questions
- 0:20where you say to yourself
- 0:22if i had an opportunity to change
- 0:24anything would i
- 0:25but if you change anything in your past
- 0:27you change everything in your future
- 0:28still not popular
- 0:31to say yes i'm one of the central park
- 0:33five it really wasn't popular
- 0:36in a grand scale
- 0:38until the central park five documentary
- 0:41came out when we got our voices back and
- 0:43then
- 0:44when they see us liberated us we had no
- 0:47idea that we will be rebranded
- 0:50correctly
- 0:51as the exonerated fire
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