Ken Burns makes a pro-vicious thug, anti-victim documentary

Ken Burns’ overrated documentary about the 5 Black and Hispanic men –- Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Kharey Wise, Raymond Santana, Jr., and Yusef Salaam –- who were originally convicted of the Central Park "wilding" of 1989, in which a jogger (known as the "Central Park jogger") and Wall Street investment banker, Trisha Meili, was gang-raped and brutally beaten to near-death. Ken Burns wants you to believe that the men were wrongfully convicted and were innocent victims in all this. And to do so, Ken Burns will gloss over the fact they are thugs who brag about having watched and enjoyed the "wilding" they claim was performed by 5 others.

Is your heart breaking for them yet?

Toward the beginning of the movie, the five men brag about how they watched "another group of kids" like them beat the crap out of a White man in Central Park. They talk about it like they enjoyed watching it, and of course, they did. None of them did a single thing to stop it. We find out later that they were in fact were beating the crap out of various White people in Central Park. A NY Times reporter sympathetic to them whines about the fact that their lawyers didn't use this as a defense at trial: that they couldn't have raped and beaten this woman nearly to death because they were too busy doing it to other people.

They naturally get sympathy (and typical grandstanding) out of the-then corpulent and less-accepted (the way it still should be) Al Sharpton, but decent people aren't sympathetic to these savages.

Filmmakers can turn out to be scum too.

They should be in jail still.

If you're a liberal who voted for Obama, you'll like this mindless drivel...