10-year-old drops the mic on wealth gap and its impact on criminal justice
The Internet thanks you Naomi Yitna. Yitna was helping volunteer at a Texas elementary school's debate program when one student stood out from the pack...
The Internet thanks you, Naomi Yitna.
Yitna was helping volunteer at a Texas elementary school’s debate program when one student stood out from the pack.
Watch the Viral Moment in the 2 Video Clips Below:
The 10-year-old student, who hasn’t been identified, basically dropped the mic on wealth inequality and its staggering impact on the criminal justice system in America.
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“[The criminal justice] system is really not fair,” the boy starts off in the 30-second clip uploaded to Yitna’s Twitter page. “Because the average person that’s wealthy can easily pay their way out of prison. It’s really all about money because the people who have the money always pay their way out. They hire the best lawyers, people who know they did the crime.”
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But what about the other side of the coin?
“But the people put on death row are the people who hardly have anything, ” the boy continues. “People that hardly have family.”
And then the young debater turned his attention to his “favorite show,” The People vs. OJ Simpson, as a clear-cut example of his point.
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“He literally paid his way out of jail,” the boy concluded of Simpson’s All-Star attorney team. “It was the way that he paid people to let him free.”
You can hear the classroom begin to applaud before the video cuts out.
Yitna’s original tweet has already been retweeted and favorited more than 39,000 times combined.
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