Dear President: 'The Hopelessness of Hope'

Theo Shaw, Gates Scholar at the University of Washington School of Law in Seattle, discusses his essay about his wrongful arrest and incarceration as part of the Jena 6 and the bleak outlook for black men who enter the criminal justice system.

This is part of WNYC's Dear President: What You Need to Know About Race series, a week of conversations and first-person radio essays exploring a broad range of personal truths about being Black in America to help set a new agenda for racial equality.