6200 WK 8 DISUSSION VIDEO

SPEAKER: 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. SPEAKER: 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. SPEAKER: 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. SPEAKER: 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--