The 30 for 30 film ‘No Crossover” detailed the event of Allen Iverson’s trial and tribulations throughout his life. The film was spoke mainly about the trial that change his life from a not so average high school student to being a felon. Iverson was born to a teenage mom named Ann. Iverson was a great athlete in his high school years. He played multiple sports including basketball and football. Iverson was born in Hampton, Virginia in 1975, and got caught up in some early legal issues. A brawl broke out in 1993 at a bowling alley where he and his friends were and Iverson and his friends were allegedly seen as starting the brawl. Several Caucasians were hurt in the incident when chairs and fists went flying. There was a video of the brawl but
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The most prevalent being race. The film seemed to take a look what’s been going on in this country for many hundreds of years involving minorities in the justice system black and other melanated individuals are disproportionality given harsher sentences to for crimes they may or may not have committed. Blacks make up 13% of the United States population they are 40% of the prison population. The law in our society seem to be unjust along racial lines. When slaves were “freed” by the emancipation proclamation laws were enacted to protect the property of whites who were afraid that blacks could work the land they owned better than they could and could possibly make more money than them causing them to lose money, because now there was no one to work the land for them. These types of laws included vagrancy laws. These types of laws made it a crime for people to move from place to place without having a visible means to support themselves. So now it was illegal to be jobless or homeless, yet the slaves were free and had nowhere to …show more content…
Iverson was a poverty ridden child with who’s only way out was to play the sports that he loved. When he got into some trouble he was not even given the benefit of the doubt. He was given a spotty lawyer, because he could not afford one, and who did not have his best interest at heart. He also didn’t have evidence support the action of what people said he did. Society looks down its preverbal nose at those who have low socioeconomic status. They view it as the person fault for not work hard enough or not wanting to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Compared to Brock Allen who raped an unconscious woman and received 3 felonies, but only had to do 6 months and only three if ha good behavior. Brock unlike Iverson was in a high socioeconomic class and had great lawyers and dare I say privilege. Privilege in a couple of way. The first being affluence the second being the injustice of how whites and black disproportionally receive their sentences in the system. This was shown when the Caucasian judge Aaron Pesky stated that” I think he will not be a danger to other danger to others”. While Iverson was painted as a leader of a mob that will possibly do more harm than good in society. From the time of slavery and even now the minorities are seen as a threat to society. This has even been experienced by me here at Hardin- Simmons University. When I as passing from class to class one
The most prevalent being race. The film seemed to take a look what’s been going on in this country for many hundreds of years involving minorities in the justice system black and other melanated individuals are disproportionality given harsher sentences to for crimes they may or may not have committed. Blacks make up 13% of the United States population they are 40% of the prison population. The law in our society seem to be unjust along racial lines. When slaves were “freed” by the emancipation proclamation laws were enacted to protect the property of whites who were afraid that blacks could work the land they owned better than they could and could possibly make more money than them causing them to lose money, because now there was no one to work the land for them. These types of laws included vagrancy laws. These types of laws made it a crime for people to move from place to place without having a visible means to support themselves. So now it was illegal to be jobless or homeless, yet the slaves were free and had nowhere to …show more content…
Iverson was a poverty ridden child with who’s only way out was to play the sports that he loved. When he got into some trouble he was not even given the benefit of the doubt. He was given a spotty lawyer, because he could not afford one, and who did not have his best interest at heart. He also didn’t have evidence support the action of what people said he did. Society looks down its preverbal nose at those who have low socioeconomic status. They view it as the person fault for not work hard enough or not wanting to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Compared to Brock Allen who raped an unconscious woman and received 3 felonies, but only had to do 6 months and only three if ha good behavior. Brock unlike Iverson was in a high socioeconomic class and had great lawyers and dare I say privilege. Privilege in a couple of way. The first being affluence the second being the injustice of how whites and black disproportionally receive their sentences in the system. This was shown when the Caucasian judge Aaron Pesky stated that” I think he will not be a danger to other danger to others”. While Iverson was painted as a leader of a mob that will possibly do more harm than good in society. From the time of slavery and even now the minorities are seen as a threat to society. This has even been experienced by me here at Hardin- Simmons University. When I as passing from class to class one