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Alex and Social Worker

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Alex and Social Worker Program Transcript SOCIAL WORKER: Hi, Alex. Thank you for meeting with me today, and thank you for

agreeing to a video conference. Seemed to work best for our schedules today.

ALEX WILLIAMS: Sure.

SOCIAL WORKER: So I've heard from your teachers that you don't seem like yourself.

Has something happened lately that you want to talk about?

ALEX WILLIAMS: Yeah. Yeah, I guess so.

SOCIAL WORKER: OK, what was it?

ALEX WILLIAMS: I've been down since cheerleading orientation. The coach said

something that made it really clear that cheerleading may not be for a Black girl. Why

would she even say something like that?

And I just-- I feel like I'm just dealing with enough as it is right now with the shooting, the

Trey Noya shooting, another unarmed black man shot by police, and it's in my

neighborhood.

SOCIAL WORKER: Yeah, I heard about it. How do you think these events are affecting

you?

ALEX WILLIAMS: Well, I don't think I'm going to try out for cheerleading, so there goes

that plan. Maybe. I don't know.

Plus, I feel like I go into a school with mostly white kids. It just feels like everyone is

looking at me. I can't concentrate. I can't even focus on my schoolwork, because I can't

stop thinking about how nothing is going to happen to that cop or to the coach, because

they're both white, and it just--