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Janae Watson, Part 2

Janae has one of the more heartbreaking flashbacks of season five. We see her as a young teenager at a public school, where she’s one of the top students in her class. Her teacher takes note of her insatiable desire to learn and floats the idea of Janae getting a scholarship to a nearby private school, and even sets her up with a tour of the academy. As Janae is led around the fancy school — with its brand-new computers and all-white student body — her love of education dwindles. By the time she gets back to her own school, she’s completely dejected by the fact that, as a young, lower-income black student, she’ll have to work twice has hard to get half as far as her rich, white counterparts. It’s incredibly sad, but does offer an explanation for her first flashback, in which she robs a bank.

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