After seeing this documentary, it is safe to say that prison-building in America serves as a program that collects millions of dollars from the work of thousands of innocent people, and spends hundredths on protecting wicked politicians. Their strategic plan on taking everything from the blacks is unfortunately successful. During the movie, Michael Hough said an eye opening statement; The focus is on taking people from prison, putting them in community corrections, parole and probation.” Basically the whites built more than 3000 jails across the US, and targeted black Americans and immigrants. Once they are convicted for a crime it is impossible to easily get out of it without a parole or a criminal record. Convicted people know that they …show more content…
Since then, I’ve read the 13th Amendment at least five times. I’ve been trying to comprehend how did this vain- worded sentence with forty-six words abolished slavery...?!Whether they fully planned how this amendment could one day be violated I’m not sure, but surely “for those convicted of a crime” wasn’t unintentionally just put there for any reason. It seems that the mass incarceration and the creating of a labor workforce was thought and established long before people knew what it truly meant. In my opinion the 13th Amendment was a claimed law written by those who seemed to “care” about social equality yet failed to boldly protect the rights of African- American …show more content…
The 13th documentary together with the characters that were interviewed did a beautiful job on illustrating how dehumanization of black slaves started from slavery and continued its practice until now. Since the starting of the plantation system in Virginia, the American Colonies past laws that took away the civil rights of the blacks. The whites forcibly brought Africans in America, made them slaves, and never gave them the freedom to be and feel equal. The stereotypes of blacks as lazy, stupid, aggressive, violent, and animal-like, are present even in today’s society. These degrading stereotypes are reinforced and enhanced by the racist, close-minded people and the media. The documentary shows how black characters appeared in American films since the beginning of the movie industry. What I noticed in the movie was the actor who was playing the rapist black man wasn’t even black. Basically, they refused to hire black actors and yet portrayed blacks as monsters driven by a desire to rape white women. The images of black males as wild animals have had tremendous effects on our society’s view of African Americans. Brainwashed by the media, most white people actually believe that the movies were based on true stories and not fiction. All these stereotypes and misconceptions became ingrained in the minds of American people. This fear is built into white