Everyone turned the learned helplessness response into an insult instead of being kinder to people that unwillingly built barricades in their minds because they only experienced pain no matter what they did for most of their lives/for their early lives
This photo breaks me every single time I see it.😡😡
Back in 2002, 16-year-old Brian Banks was a straight-up football phenom at Long Beach Poly High School. USC scholarship locked in. NFL dreams right in front of him.
Then a girl named Wanetta Gibson accused him of raping her in a school stairwell. No DNA. No witnesses. Nothing. But they had him facing 41 years to life. His own lawyer pressured him into a no-contest plea. Just like that, his future was gone.
He spent five brutal years locked up and another five on parole as a registered sex offender. All of it was a lie. In 2012, Gibson finally admitted on camera, that she made the whole thing up so she and her family could sue the school district and pocket $1.5 million.
This is a picture of Brian in that courtroom when the judge exonerates him. A grown man collapsing in tears after a decade of hell. And her? Zero jail time. Not one single day. She destroyed an innocent Black kid’s entire life for a payday and walked away like it was nothing.
This is straight-up evil. False accusations like this ruin lives, crush dreams, and the system lets the liars skate every damn time. How many more Brian Banks are out there right now😭