Summary Of 13th By Av Duvernay

In the documentary 13th by director Ava DuVernay, a racial stigma is investigated regarding the skin colors of those being incarcerated in the U.S. prison systems. Some questions being introduced in 13th leave us intrigued and those relate to the presidents at the time handling every situation differently. Those questions and many more will be answered along with a critique of the handling by those in power regarding incarceration. Many symbols with meaning are introduced in 13th, such as the whites power over the media, their exaggeration of the release of Birth of a Nation and the presidency itself. The documentary goes in-depth into the incarceration of many blacks, and it does that with the questions it asks. As history has written, and as discussed in the documentary, the whites in the rural areas, including officers and government

In an interview that Matt Ford did with James Forman regarding the black support for mass incarceration, Forman tells us “I found Martin Luther King, Sr. saying in 1947 that the 105,000 Negroes of Atlanta needed and deserved one Negro officer.” This is clearly an issue now since a lot of protests are occurring because of white officers killing blacks, whether armed or unarmed. Establishing a connection with the past and the present shows us that the issue of mass incarceration of blacks has never stopped since blacks were first oppressed. As Forman later says, blacks that were trying their best for promotions after the Civil rights movement era began to see results. More blacks were being promoted to higher positions which were deserved. Forman then tackles the issue of racial profiling which he sees as a major thing in the 1990s. At the end of the day, when someone saw a black man, there were still false assumptions being made regarding their field of work. Forman establishes this connection using class