The 13th is a powerful documentary on the 13th Amendment of the American Constitution. The documentary starts with discussing 13th Amendment which slavery in the U.S. unless it is a punishment for a crime one has been found guilty. This technicality in the Amendment legalized some form of enslavement in the American institutions. In fact, it has been exploited as a tool for mass incarceration and criminalization of the blacks. The 13th is a historical analysis that links slavery to current prison industrial complex. The film demonstrates how the Whites exploited the loophole in the amendment after the Civil War to arrest African-American for minor crimes to ensure that the economic system of free labor is retained in the South. Moreover, this
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In fact, President Donald Trump alluded to the black criminality mythology when he twitted that African American kills 81% of murdered whites. That is a big lie since the reverse is the truth. By alluding that whites are prone to death by blacks, President Trump is widening the hatred between the whites and the blacks something that could bring another civil war. Moreover, some of his cabinet picks, and top advisors have a history of prejudice against the minority community. For instance, his chief strategist and senior counselor Steve Bannon was an executive chairperson of a news site called Breitbart, which advocated for white supremacy. The news site also openly increased anti-Semitic writings and racism to help President Trump win more votes among the white community. President Trump also launched a travel ban targeting the Muslims under the disguise of war on terror. Just as the war on drugs was used to discriminate against the blacks, so is the war on terror used to discriminate against the Muslims. The worse part of it is that his company was sued twice after it refused to rent houses to the black people. This proves President Trump is one among several prominent individuals who are propagating racism in the
In fact, President Donald Trump alluded to the black criminality mythology when he twitted that African American kills 81% of murdered whites. That is a big lie since the reverse is the truth. By alluding that whites are prone to death by blacks, President Trump is widening the hatred between the whites and the blacks something that could bring another civil war. Moreover, some of his cabinet picks, and top advisors have a history of prejudice against the minority community. For instance, his chief strategist and senior counselor Steve Bannon was an executive chairperson of a news site called Breitbart, which advocated for white supremacy. The news site also openly increased anti-Semitic writings and racism to help President Trump win more votes among the white community. President Trump also launched a travel ban targeting the Muslims under the disguise of war on terror. Just as the war on drugs was used to discriminate against the blacks, so is the war on terror used to discriminate against the Muslims. The worse part of it is that his company was sued twice after it refused to rent houses to the black people. This proves President Trump is one among several prominent individuals who are propagating racism in the