All American Boys

Rashad isn't here today either.

It all began with that graffiti on the pavement.

Actually, however, it all began when a woman at the supermarket tripped over Rashad, causing him to lose a bag of chips. Because the policeman just continued beating Rashad despite his subsequent statements that it was an accident and that he wasn't stealing. Pumping him into the pavement again and over. Rashad, an ROTC student with extraordinary artistic abilities, was then repeatedly missing, trapped in a hospital ward. How come? as it seemed like he was stealing. And he was a young black man dressed sloppily. He had to be stealing, then.

And it was the beginning.

Quinn, a white child, observed that as well. He saw the elder brother of his closest buddy severely abusing a fellow student. Quinn doesn't initially inform anybody.He isn't even certain that he comprehends it. Does it even matter? Regardless, the whole incident was captured on video. However, as the school and the country begin to disagree on what transpires, the blame grows like wildfire and is fueled by derogatory terms like "racism" and "police brutality." Quinn realizes he’s got to understand it, because, bystander or not, he’s a part of history. All he has to do is choose whose side of history that will be.

Rashad and Quinn—one black, one white, both American—face the unspeakable truth that racism and prejudice didn’t die after the civil rights movement. There’s a future at stake, a future where no one else will have to be absent because of police brutality. They just have to risk everything to change the world.

Cuz that’s how it can end.