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Major Component Of The Movie The 13th

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The Major components to the film the 13th are that it talks slavery and how black people use to live for example the movie talked about how black people used to be property of white rich famers or land owners. I feel like it was completely wrong to have black people being white people property. I also feel like it is wrong to segregate people based on skins or other ethics or beliefs.
The movie also describes issue around black people and how white people wanted to make difference in the law-making stronger laws surrounding those issue for example crack then cocaine since more black communities used crack and more white communities used cocaine. (23:00-25:00 13th movie) Black people were getting worst sentences then white people using the same substance. Everyone who does drugs should get equal and fair treatment of the laws. I think who ever do drugs should be does not necessary need to be thrown into jail I view as a personal choice just liking drinking and smoking cigarettes. People should not be thrown into jail for life for doing drugs since when the government made a bill that was called a crime bill it was used against people by giving people longer prison sentences then they …show more content…

The movie 13th makes connection with prison sentences and different policies that were made over historical times against black or color. So overall the film is hitting on the believe that color and black people were treated very unfair in the rule of justice in the laws by providing example like longer prison sentences for color people over white people for similar crimes that they commit. The 13th movie goes into depth about different crime bills that has had a major effect on the black

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When one talks about underlying racism, if they ever talk about it, there is a consistent denial of its existence throughout American society. This ever present flaw is not a systematic issue where a person can point out the exact laws that persecute, rather, the government is a vehicle that executes the will of the people in charge of the system. Hence, I see the “13th” film as an exposition of how systematic oppression is not a system oppressing an ethnicity, but rather people using the government as a vehicle to unjustly place African-Americans in prison. Altogether I believe that this tragedy reinforces the notion that the United States will always neglect its cultural outsiders because of how devastating it is to see that “African Americans make up 6.5% of the American population but 40.2% of

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For example, sanitation workers had to carry bags of garbage that had holes in them and since they were paid low wages, they ended up poor on welfare. Not only was this film was a way of seeing another turning point during the civil rights movement but also, African Americans fighting for justice. Even though I was not born during that time, I can understand how they felt because it wasn’t that easy. In today’s society racism isn’t as bad as what it was during that time. Besides we still have times were we face racism in our lives so I would say in some areas racism is still a

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The “13th” is a documentary about the American system of incarceration and the economic forces behind racism in America especially in people of color. One of the claims that the author mentioned is that today incarceration is an extension of slavery. It is also mentioned that most of the time in society we are defined by race. In the documentary, we can see how African Americans are sentenced for many years since they are too poor to pay their fines or sometimes most of these people plead guilty to get out of jail fast. However, African Americans are separated from their families and also treated inhumanly in prisons just because they are of a particular race.

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There is a scene in the movie that shows a white women jumping off of a cliff and plummeting to her death than to be raped by a black man. This is an exaggeration because black people as a whole were portrayed by white people as outcasts, low class citizens, and criminals and there were many white masters raping their black female slaves. In addition to that the 13th also

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Towards the beginning of this movie, many blacks were looking at the white men with hatred for raping and nearly killing a ten year old black girl. The men transformed the innocent little girl’s life forever. The men were instantly

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It shows African Americans attacking Whites and being the ones in control. The films side comments would say the power and new equality of blacks while the Whites were helpless and scared. In actual history, African Americans were never fully given equality, or high-ranking positions, and were always treated like slaves; even after the 14th amendment was placed. Also, at the election, Blacks weren’t allowing the Whites to vote. The 15th amendment gives the right for African Americans to vote but wasn’t practiced during that time period because of the White supremacy that was still present.

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One of the biggest highlighted event in the movie would be when the white people made separate bathrooms for the black people in their houses. People were disgusted about the idea of having to use the same toilet as a black person because of the “diseases” they carry and wanted seperate bathrooms. This was also just another way that white people to keep blacks under them by making them feel inferior. We also have the case of the segregated buses where the white sit in the front and black sit in the back. At this point of the movie a young black man had gotten shot and the driver boarded the bus to kick off all the black people just by saying “colored people off”.

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In fact, the film resulted in the reformation of the Ku Klux Klan in real life during the 1920s because of its portrayal of maltreatment towards the African-American slaves. I’m fully aware that at the time the film was released, the subject matter would be highly controversial to be actually depicted publicly in cinema, although nowadays this subject matter would be welcomed in films for mature audiences (ie. 12 Years A Slave). Aside from that, the filmmakers decided to use white actors for black characters, which I found disrespectful. This aspect of the film was notorious for having caused controversy at the time of its release.

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