The movie entitled 13th amendment is about how the government took measures to cripple African American families and communities using war, drugs, three strikes you’re out, and the stand your ground laws. These laws hurt the African American community because police officers were arresting blacks for extremely minor crimes such and broke tail lights or because they looked suspicious or supposedly fit the description of a criminal. At the time that the movie was made, African Americans made up 35% of the U.S population and 12 to 13% of african Americans were in prison. incarcerating African Americans for petty crimes played in with the loop hole in the 13th amendment that everyone is free except criminals and people that acted in crime.
Next next loop hole to keep African Americans was the three strike rule created by Bill Clinton which states that if a person committed three major crimes their prison sentence increases to a life sentence . At this point the rate of blacks in prison was six time higher than whites because of the life sentence . Bill and his stated in a press conference that drugs were turning African Americans in wild animals yet they were helping the people get addicted to them. Prisons were becoming overcrowded where the system could not house that many people so they had to be
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Cops would use little tactics like having drugs on them and as acting if the person would have them. As more and more people were sent to prison for drug-related crimes, black people fared worse than other groups. According to the American Civil Liberties Union, black people are 3.2% more likely to be arrested for possession of marijuana than their white peers, even though blacks and whites use the drug at similar