One of my favorite shows to watch is the TV show Criminal Minds. This show follows the group of skilled criminal profilers who work for the FBI as members of the Behavioral Analysis Unit (BAU). They use behavioral analysis and profiling to investigate criminals and find perpetrators. One of the biggest themes of criminal minds would be that it primarily focuses on the backgrounds of the victims and the criminals and not actually on the crime itself, which before this show was considered unusual. The BAU travels all around the country solving different crimes and catching different criminals. One episode that has always stood out to me was “Strange Fruit”. In this episode the team discovers skeletons of human bodies in the backyard of an African American family, Charles and Tina Johnson, the home they have lived in for 35 years. The team initially thinks the Johnson’s son, Lyle, is guilty because he ran when the police showed up to the house. The BAU brings in all three member of the family for questioning. Agent Rossi takes the father, Charles Johnson, in for questioning where he finds out the history of racism that he has had on his shoulders. Charles starts out by telling Rossi that he is “disappointed” in his sons gender, meaning that since he was an African American teenage boy he would get stopped and abused more than if he was an African American girl. Tech analyst Penelope Garcia, finds out that when he was a teenager, Charles Johnson was accused of raping a white teenage girl. When other white boys in the neighborhood had heard about this they took young Charles and they beat him and castrated him for the alleged offense. The murders that happened in 1973 were of the men who were involved in the attack of Charles, he wanted to seek revenge for what they did to him. But there were men that were involved in the abuse of Charles that had died earlier on of natural causes, but Charles still wanted revenge on them and their families. So in 2003 he targets the daughters of the men he was unable to seek revenge on. He beat all of his victims to death, mutilated them and buried the bodies in the backyard. This episode is actually very difficult to watch because of the injustice that Charles faced during his teenage years and probably his later years as well. He was abused and tortured because he is an African American man living in Virginia, and that built up rage led him to do brutal things to his victims. I feel like this episode kind of twists and turns with who is “The One” and who is “The Other”. In the beginning of the episode the other was supposed to be Lyle Johnson, because he ran from the police and was thought to be guilty of the murders. Then as Charles tells the story of his life he is thought to be the other because of the racism is experienced throughout his life.