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"Hello everyone, like you may have heard before, I'm Nathaniel Lyndon." He said with a brilliant smile.

There were a few polite laughs around the room as everybody knew him by now. Outside of the fact that he was a celebrity of sorts, it wasn't everyday that you had a seventeen years old college students with three millions subscribers on Twitter and almost two millions on Youtube. More than that, Nathaniel was something of a curious entity for the rest of the class.

Because of the fact that he was a very busy actor and singer, he was more often missing from class than not and yet he was still the top of the class, his GPA seven point ahead of the second who was Na-Yung and eleven point to the third. Outside of class, he wasn't engaging in any social activity or sports like the huge majority of students. It was also why he was often seen alone on the campus, walking or sitting in the library busy studying. Despite his handsome appearance and his physique, he was giving off geeky vibes.

Making sure that everyone had his eyes on him, Nathaniel launched the first video. It was a replay of a new broadcast showing Police officers in riot gear, in the middle of the street between two groups of people who were cursing and shouting at each other. The image changed showing cars burning to the side and business front window being smashed down.

"Let me give you the context of what you are seeing." Nathaniel said, cutting the video that was muted on purpose. "What you just saw happened six years ago in the town of Auburn in Alabama. Let me walk you through this sequence of events. At ten forty five PM, the local Police respond to a 911 call for public disturbance coming from 47 Drake Avenue. That place was the home of forty four years old, James Owen living with his wife and two sons. Upon arriving at the scene, the two officers noticed that James Owen was intoxicated and that his oldest son had a mark on his face consistent with a slap and was crying openly. Taking into account that the father was a very well respected minister and a pillar of the community, the two officers just issued a warning and left them alone. In their report, they choose to hide what they saw concerning the slap and then carry on with their work like it was nothing."

Nathaniel made a short break to make sure he still had everyone's attention before continuing.

"That could have been the end of it but it was not and seeing the lack of response of the Police, the neighbor in question called a local news channel about what was going on what she learned amidst all of the yelling that she was hearing coming from the house. A reporter investigated and found out why they were arguing. It happened that his oldest son, Eric, was for a few months now dating a brown american girl, Clarrissa Warton, who was living a couple of blocks away and the father was trying to break them off. The two being in love, they tried to hide it from the minister and keep dating in secrets. When they failed, Eric tried to run away from home and it was at this occasion that the cops intervened and saw him with signs of abuse on his face. The news channel then reported the story."

Nathaniel then shows five different front pages of a local journal, all talking about the story.

"Forty four percent of James Owen congregation was black Americans, hearing the story they felt betrayed to learn that a brown girl was not good enough for his white son. Friends and neighbors turn on each other and what I showed you earlier happened. Racial tension exploded in that district and it created a scene depressingly familiar in the US. Seeing what happened, the prosecutor who was in an election year pursued the minister for child abuse. Using the racial angle of the case as a character assassination, the prosecutor advocate for the harshest jail time and was succesfull. James Owen pleaded guilty and was incarcerated."

Seeing that his professor was going to say something, Nathaniel continued before he had the chance.

"Now I see you wondering why I'm talking to you about such an open and shut case. One of the reasons is because it had a really bad ending. Two month after being convicted, James Owen hung himself in his cell. Eric and Clarissa finish high school and choose to go into the same university in Tennessee. Four years later, they were happily engaged when they had a car accident. Due to complications that happened after the accident, they both died from their injuries. The second reason is the most important because I believe everything that happens is wrong."

There was a visible surprise among the crowd when Nathaniel said this and many people started to frown at him.

"What do you mean by wrong?" Professor Miles asked.

"I mean exactly what the word means, this whole case was not what it seems from the beginning. For starters, I don't even believe this man was racist." Nathaniel answered.

"I don't understand, didn't this whole case start because he didn't want his son to date a black girl?" One the student asked out loud with brown hair.

Not displeased in the slightest by the interruption, Nathaniel answered before Professor Miles could berate the student for speaking without asking permission first. In fact, Nathaniel wanted a discourse with his fellow student, if they were here in the first place, it means that they were brilliant each in their own way.

"It is. In fact this is one of the rare things that the new report got right in their piece."

"Then how can you affirm that it was not about race? What proof do you have?" A girl on the fourth row asked.

Nathaniel nodded appreciatively as it was a good and fair question to ask. He was especially grateful that the person in question kept it factually and did not go into the feelings of the subject who was extremely divisive in the US. It was not to say that everyone in the room had that factual approach considering the number of glare and judgmental glances that was coming his way.

"I pulled up their tax record from the last five years and they were giving 23% or their total income to various charities, most of them helping Black and Brown Americans families. I know, I know, it proves nothing but I mention it because they give it anonymously and based on the people I talk to, they never even talked about it to their close friends. When you are a racist who gives money to hide it, you are making it known or that goes against the point you are trying to make by giving it in the first place. There is more of course, while I was investigating I found this video online where him and his congregation were hosting a caritative event, take a look."

Nathaniel launches the vid but this time he activates the sound. The minister and his congregation were having fun, drinking beer and making food to feed the homeless. The minister in question was always with a smile on his face, talking to everyone and making jokes. Nathaniel let the vid run until he was sure the point got across.

"Now, show of hands, who believes that man was racist?" Nathaniel asked.

Conforming to his expectation, the last video had managed to convince everyone which wasn't surprising considering that had been what convinced him while he was investigating. There were still some people who raised their hands and Nathaniel pointed at one of them.

"Why are you not convinced?" Nathaniel asked.

"I'm not convinced because it's only circumstantial evidence and for the video, he could be very well faking."

"Fair observation." Nathaniel nodded. "If that man was at that level of acting and sociopathy, he would not be a minister but the head of the RNC right now. Moreover, he was offered advancement over the years and he never went for it, he was just content to stay where he was and help his community. That's not making any sense from a psychological standpoint."

Nathaniel watched the few students that had their hands raised lowering them until one girl was left. Nathaniel looked at her and nodded his head once to give her the room to voice her question.

"Didn't he admit it during the trial?" She asked.

"He did. He's exact word were 'I didn't want my son to be with a filthy black girl.'"

"Then why are we talking about it if he confess about it under oath?"

"Because people lie and it's in cases like that you realize for what people are willing to lie for and for what people are willing to die for." Nathaniel intoned in a grave voice.

At that point the two hundred students in the room were eyeing Nathaniel with rapt attention, wanting to know more. Even his professor was glued to his word and wasn't even thinking of interrupting him.