Oppression In The Ted Talk

From the film the “13th” to the “Ted Talk” video, the concept of modern slavery is prevalent in the way of systematic oppression. Systematic oppression is when laws, customs, and practices systematically reflect and produce inequality based on one’s race or social group. In the film the “13th” African Americans were supposed to be freed by the 13th amendment but through a loophole only created a new way of enslavement for certain groups. In the video “Ted Talk” about systematic oppression, the indigenous people of Australia were forced to be seen as the problem of the country through media and laws made by the government, therefore causing that group of people to believe that those labels were actually their only identity.
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In Australia because of media sources and the government, the indigenous people looked at as drunk, unemployed, drug addicts, lazy, and pedophiles. Nevertheless, these statements have actually been proven wrong but the media still portrays them as the problem of the country. The media has made the indigenous people hate themselves for whom they are, due to being embarrassed by what the media portrays of them causing many suicides in the population. Moreover, due to the way they are portrayed the police also look at the indigenous people as bad and therefore end up arresting many more indigenous people for petty crimes, some as simple as saying bad words in public. Even when the problem is taken to court, due to the stigma created by media around indigenous people, it only becomes a long and expensive problem which they will always lose. Through the use of a law brought on to the indigenous people, which classifies them as the original owners of the land but the government still “will take all the land and its resources and use it for our benefit anyways” therefore keeping the people oppressed (Ted Talk