Racial Discrimination In Prisons

This documentary is based in the 13th amendment which signifies that “Neither slavery no involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” This documentary dates back to the years of slavery. As it progresses and slavery becomes abolished new laws are passed and people are being discriminated against, blacks are seen as the second class to whites. Although they were provided some rights they still seemed to be treated poorly. After discrimination ended in the United States people of color were then being punished in ways such as being locked up for minimal drug charges and crimes in which they did not commit. These actions are being consider the new act of slavery, because so many people of colored are being killed, and put into prisons for years, longer than what they should be serving. Prisons are receiving large amounts of money for keeping a high number of people in their prisons. As of 2016 over two million …show more content…
This movement is to express that black lives matter as much as any other race. Although whites may say that their lives matter they literally do not know what it feels like to be a person of color and being treated like dirt. This in which is considered white privileged, this only benefits white people only, and people of higher social and economic classes. When comparing the socio-political responses from question four to my answer to seven I would say that the message has not changed at all. It has not changed because blacks and other races are still trying to understand why they are killed every day for literally nothing. Not only that but being forced to plead guilty for crimes they have not committed. Also to understand why they are being put in prison for so long for a small drug charge when whites are being released after murdering