The ability of someone to say so little by saying so much is amazing to me

Loving this whole series. If someone told me I would spend this much watching a docu series about Evergreen, I would have said not going to happen. But you have put so much effort into documenting these events and laying it out in such a way as to keep it in context. Thank you! Your work here is important.

I'm so obsessed with this story! It's unbelievable. it's like watching a train wreck as it happens. All you can do is stare in shock and pray it's not really happening

These people are a disgrace to MLK. He would be so terribly ashamed.

This woman reminds me of the Japanese WW2 soldier hiding in the Philippine jungles for 40 years thinking WW2 was still going on.

Wondering when Naima will move to a predominately black neighborhood in Chicago or Baltimore since simply speaking to white men is so "exhausting"

8:54 Naima said, *every 28 MINUTES* a black person's shot by a cop, or someone who thinks they are one; yet, at 20:04 says it happens *every 28 HOURS.* BOTH FALSE, but keep going Naima... You'll get there.🙄 (*Whispers* "no she won't.")

One word: bodycams. Saved dozends of cops from false accusations in the last years.

It's probably not my place - but if you're black and you have to steal something, could you try to not make it a watermelon? There's only so much I can take before my need for comedy overtakes my desire to not feel racist.

George thought he was going to be some kind of iconic leader and ended up being held hostage in his own office not being allowed to pee. Hilarious.

This makes my skin crawl and my blood boil; then comes the despair, oh the despair - why am I so compelled to keep watching it? Excellent/Excrement work as ususal Benjamin Sir.

"I don't have statistical expertise, but I do have personal anecdotes." I miss the days when that would be reason enough not to give someone a stage.

Thanks for all the hard work young Benjamin. You're one of the few good journo's in existence.

"I refuse to shut my mouth!" Yeah, I can see that's never been a problem for you.

So nice to see a happy Naima looking forward to a bright future.

Apparently the solution to racism is more racism. Who knew?

“I don’t have any actual information or facts but what I do have is a lot of strong feelings”

Every time you post one of these videos, I just know it's going to ruin my day.

That purple people eater is exhausting. Not a social scientist, no statistical info, but what she does have is a whole lot of personal anecdotes.

How do these videos have so few views? It’s wokeness unfiltered in its purest form. It’s like staring directly at the beast.

Omg it's Naima. I'm just a couple minutes in and I'm already LITERALLY SHAKING.

What I love the most is how expertly you have pieced together the events leading up to the Bret protests by letting the chaos speak for itself. The clips speak for themselves, with very little need for added commentary! What an embarrassment to what seemed like a progressive academic institution turning into a backwards establishment. This is incredibly difficult to watch and I thank you for your work on this.

If only Naima could take her OWN advice, at the beginning. She's so busy looking for - &creating - it, elsewhere, she doesn't even realize if she looked inward, she'd see she's the worst offender of them all. (Or maybe she has, &doesn't care)

Thanks, Benjamin. For me, this tragedy illustrates the deep need for all of us to hold the value of moving beyond black-and-white thinking and black-and-white empathy.

Did they literally steal a watermelon and run away on skateboard? That has got to be the worst and least valuable thing to try to carry while running.

Love the community policing conversation because it all ends when your stuff gets stolen..."where are the police? Where is the camera footage?"

Ive been following you for a long time and your insights and breakdowns into how and why this all happened are spot on.

Excellent episode and analysis. No mention by Ms. Lowe of the grocery employee who was threatened with a case of glass beer bottles.

Ben, thanks for the subliminal flash to the bat wielding mob! I was becoming despondent so it was a welcome tiny smile.

I so wish a follow up on Naima Lowe would happen. Assuredly no one would hire her after this debacle but you never know. Great series Benjamin and another stinging indictment of George Bridges leadership.

Thank you God for those brave police officers who are still putting their lives on the line to stop those demon thugs.

I would sincerely love a follow up on where these students are today. Im guessing they're in the same place, blaming everything and anything for their shortcomings and doing nothing to actually better themselves. I hope im wrong, I would just like to know, because I sure as hell would be ashamed of myself if I were part of that shit

Update on Naima Lowe: She resigned shortly after the protests and now describes herself as self-employed. She doesn't list Evergreen in her experience on LinkIn.

Seems they only do "Hands up, don't shoot" at rallies. If they would teach their kids that (legit) stance for real life and taught that complying to an officers instructions was for legit reasons, then their 'kids getting shot' wouldn't be taking place.

Just in time. The new chapter. I can breathe. The Boyce documentaries on that social justice, intersectional neo-marxist petri dish in the woods, Evergreen College, illuminate like no others. This is yet another. Thanks BBoyce for doing us all such a colossal favor in getting this thing cued up.

In any forthcoming zombie apocalypse there are individuals who currently embody so much self-pity, pathos and myopic, ossified bitterness that they will not be welcomed by any of the surviving communities... this series has made that very clear in myriad regard.

Wow that Naima woman sure LOVES the sound of her own voice. It's interesting how many times people like this talk about events that didn't even happen to them as if they literally did. It's narcissistic and sad.

I actually feel sorry for Naima. It does seem she is legit traumatized. Whether that trauma is of her own making aside, it’s a horrible way to live.

I honestly marvel at Ben's ability to continue posting this stuff without (to our knowledge) becoming bitter. Some of it can be so upsetting.

Wow, it’s just hard to believe how timely this video series is

This is hard to watch in one sitting. I can't imagine sitting in those rooms and listening to these lectures over and over again.

My question is this, am I allowed to judge an entire race based on my experience with an individual? I'm unsure of how the phrase "in my experience" holds any merit for anything. "In my experience mental illness is a dangerous attribute for college professors", yet here we are. (Edit) Ok I'm sorry I tried not to get personal but I do believe that there is a correlation involved here. Naima Lowe has certain physical and mental attributes that have to be recognized I believe as part of her narcissism. Please do not view this as just an angry person trying to be nasty but rather a person trying to understand a mind that is seriously damaged. 1) Naima Lowe is overweight and exercise creates endorphins and endorphins make you happy. 2) Naima Lowe has no principles. She contradicts herself quiet often because she doesn't believe anything that she is saying only saying what she believes benefits her when it's said. 3) Naima Lowe appears to have low self-esteem. The reason I can tell is because she cannot be challenged on her beliefs. If she feels challenged she will immediately resort to a position of authority to try to shut down your argument before something can be said that she may actually have to think about. 4) Naima Lowe is a racist. You can make up all the definitions that you want but it doesn't make them true. She is under the impression that every White person in the world is evil with bad intentions and every Black person is misunderstood with good intentions. 5) At best she has Narcissistic personality disorder and at worst she is a psychopath. Naima Lowe used feeble minds in order to gain personal power and eventually a nice lawsuit while her minions have ruined not only the good name of their University but by extension their degrees, which were not free. My question for any student who bought into this is simply this: Is your life better or worse for having met Naima Lowe?

I liked before I watched. Thanks BB for the good work!

I've been watching episode 1 to 14 today. I think the problem here is George S. Bridges.

Excellent, excellent episode, Mr. Ben!

George is an instigator

How was the cop to know the skateboard wasn't loaded?

Thank you for your careful and pain staking analysis of the Evergreen nightmare. If it doesn't get disappeared in the Gulag it will become an essential part of teaching history. And that Naima woman, she's exhausted and breathless because she's grossly overweight. And I've been amazed by how many of the students are also grossly overweight. They need to fix that before they start trying to fix the world.

Theory- narcissism is communicable...

Brothers: *steal stuff on camera, then attack an officer with potentially lethal force* Officer: *shoots back in self defense* Brothers: I'm the victim here!

I am so glad that I didn't transfer to go there like I had thought about in 1999.

So, seeing as though George sees racism everywhere including the workforce, he'll gladly step down from his position right? Yeah that's what I thought...

Brother I am being so serious and genuine I am blessed to be able to watch these videos. Praise God that you were able to do this expose! By the way the comment about the sacred totem should be on a book cover in the inside of the jacket. Very good comment very eloquent and true

As much as I owe an increased sense of perspective to this series I don’t think I can Naima today.

Why does she find talking to white men so exhausting? It must be because she's constantly micro-analyzing everything they say to her and taking offense at just about everything, no matter how innocuous.

Benjamin I really appreciate your on-screen notes and analysis during the last few minutes, as well as the usage of "Exorcist-style" subliminal flash frames

This series is an epic achievement already, and you're not even done yet. I salute you, @Benjamin A Boyce .

I've been waiting for this! Thank you gorgeous! 😀 I find that if you change all of the times someone says 'white' or 'whiteness' to 'black' or 'blackness', this opening becomes ludicrously racist... strange that... this whole story reminds me of that quote "I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few"

Thanks for nice sharing

On the bright side, this docuseries should help people who suffer from a low blood pressure :p

Thanks for publishing Naima Lowe in her own words relatively uninterrupted! Now for the interview...

So much heat, so little light.

This whole saga was an incredible bellwether

8:12 "The White Gaze", eh? That's a new one for me. Also, a well built, pro level skateboard is absolutely a deadly melee weapon. I've seen some stuff during my 21 years of skateboarding.

I'm a mom, and I love my son with all my heart, but if my son got shot while shoplifting and assaulting people, my anger wouldn't be aimed at the police.

Did that guy just steal a watermelon?

Kinda amazing that a professor can be so out of touch with reality.

I like the flash frame of the baseball bat gang.

Great analysis of precisely the kind of thinker Naima Lowe is.

Naimi, Jamil, Ar and Lawrence are all welcome back in the homeland of Africa. They will be shocked!

Naima seems well balanced - she has a chip on both shoulders....

I started watching these videos about a year ago but became so frustrated I had to stop. Now I'm forcing myself to watch as it's important to try to understand what happened

Hmm. I thought they were also being apprehended for assaulting the store clerk. You commit a crime, run from police, resist arrest, fight with arresting officer...you deserve what you get.

"We are not free because robbers attacked a cop and got shot." Um ok.

Excellent background info. I did NOT know that it was Jamil who wrote that original (racist) email.

60x24÷28x365.25= 18,781.15 wow that is a good class action suit for that lawyer!

LOVE the bat-gang flash!

Wow… Just wow.

At 1:53 I was speechless. This guy isn't doing anything to dispel racist stereotypes at all.

"we are among the blacks who get killed every 28 minutes by a cop ... or any fool who thinks he can be". Ouch, you can hear the gears working.

These two dudes escalated from theft to attacking a police officer. They should go to jail for the crime of stupidity.

15:53 - 22:44 The reasons why defunding/abolishing the police is a very horrific idea...

" ya done go down ta Cooper Point Road"

The LOVELY LADY, Naima Lowe, as well as the rest of the Evergreen faculty, admins, etc featured in this series, strike me as people who love nothing more than sitting around and huffing their own farts.

Personally I would have stolen some Wonderbread

Lowe at 8:35 "Mein Kampf is not over"

Real simple; obey the law. Real simple, when you get caught breaking the law, follow law enforcement instructions. Real simple, don't attack or assault the police. Real simple; if you put LEOs in harms way with or actions, the resultant effects ARE ON YOU

Love the 'Fight Club-esque' image @ 22:30

Lets blame everybody but the ones who actually did something illegal, we all need to take personal responsibility when we do things. attack someone and they have a right to defend themselves.

I wish there someone would make compilations of individuals in this series

I'm always perplexed by the civilian review board idea. Why should Police be the only profession where your performance is judged by someone with zero training and experience in the field and who are often openly hostile to the profession? If you wanted someone to evaluate the performance of the mechanic repairing your transmission would you as the mechanic want a barista with no auto training who is an enviro activist deciding the fate of your job? It's insanity....

I find Naima is the most beautiful song in the history of jazz. And now I remember this Naima every time I hear it. :(

Bad parenting. Bad education. Bad ideology. Bad people.

So many narrative layers...

Foreshadowing of things to come much?

11:30 saying chaplan was shot in the back was misleading according to investigators

That word salad at the end there could have used a little more dressing.

I shutter waiting to see the social justice solution to the "white gay men" problem will be

I almost feel sorry for Naima, her resentment is palpable and is clearly the impetus for her views.

Focusing on anomalies amongst 330 million people is futile. Feel free to set the entropy dial on full blast, but don't be surprised when it gets you nowhere. Don't be surprised when I call you "regressive".