A Reckoning in Boston | movie | 2021 | Official Trailer - video Dailymotion

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00:00In a city with a troubled racial past, I have had enough, this community has had enough.

00:10The rich are getting richer, if you're in development here in the city of Boston, this

00:14has become your paradise.

00:16And the poor are getting desperate.

00:17If we look at the people who have made wealth, they are not brown folks.

00:23Coffee Dixon, there are more people feeding their beasts than there are humans.

00:29Everybody has dreams and aspirations.

00:32Are trying to move forward by studying the great minds of the past.

00:37We take seriously the dictum of Thomas Aquinas, first seek to understand.

00:42In a city that's leaving them behind.

00:44Everywhere I go there's houses being built, but I'm homeless.

00:49It is human nature to want every unfair advantage you can get and not to be concerned about others.

00:57God, if these people are evicted, where will they go?

01:02You're surrounded by a world with which you feel out of step.

01:07Every 35 hours a black man is shot by a cop in America.

01:11We throw away red, black and brown young men at the drop of a hat.

01:16We represent the Boston that we're fighting for right here.

01:22It becomes like a fire inside of you.

01:24That fire can consume us or can burn the whole thing down.

01:28A reckoning is coming.

01:30You are not expected to aspire to excellence, you are expected to make peace with mediocrity.

01:36Justice is not just what you do, justice is who we are.

01:40A reckoning in Boston.