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.
The film “The 13th” by director Ava DuVernay’s, focuses on the 13th amendment and the large exploitable loophole which would be used to strip many individuals from their right to the freedom given in that amendment. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution was meant to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude but instead created a new wave of oppression for people of color. The 13th amendment says "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment …show more content…
African Americans were seen as out of control and a danger to white women. In the movie, every image of a black person was one of a demeaned, cannibalistic, and animal-like. Primarily, because of the film, the KKK had also received a good look, causing a new wave of terrorism where African Americans would get lynched by mobs due to the fact that since they were black, they automatically had done something wrong.After some time hanging and killing African Americans was not seen as good no more so Jim Crow and other laws to segregate people were used. During the civil right movement, the purpose was to break the laws and show how wrong they were. Because going to jail was a noble thing for the civil right movement, it was blamed as the main contributor to the rising crime in the country. The film also talks about the many modern ways of oppression for people of color with one being The War on Drugs. The crime rates gave a start to The War on Drugs, which was the way the government put more black people into jails by using drugs as an excuse to arrest individuals and to keep the population of prisons full. Even though actual drug use wasn’t a serious problem in the United States, President Ronald Regan and others were determined to make the war on drugs seem exponentially more serious, as they “couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt their communities” (former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman.). When presidents would use ads to fight the war on drugs, they perfectly knew they were trying to do which was to gain support by people who were racist. Many rules were created like the
The film “The 13th” by director Ava DuVernay’s, focuses on the 13th amendment and the large exploitable loophole which would be used to strip many individuals from their right to the freedom given in that amendment. The 13th amendment to the United States Constitution was meant to abolish slavery and involuntary servitude but instead created a new wave of oppression for people of color. The 13th amendment says "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment …show more content…
African Americans were seen as out of control and a danger to white women. In the movie, every image of a black person was one of a demeaned, cannibalistic, and animal-like. Primarily, because of the film, the KKK had also received a good look, causing a new wave of terrorism where African Americans would get lynched by mobs due to the fact that since they were black, they automatically had done something wrong.After some time hanging and killing African Americans was not seen as good no more so Jim Crow and other laws to segregate people were used. During the civil right movement, the purpose was to break the laws and show how wrong they were. Because going to jail was a noble thing for the civil right movement, it was blamed as the main contributor to the rising crime in the country. The film also talks about the many modern ways of oppression for people of color with one being The War on Drugs. The crime rates gave a start to The War on Drugs, which was the way the government put more black people into jails by using drugs as an excuse to arrest individuals and to keep the population of prisons full. Even though actual drug use wasn’t a serious problem in the United States, President Ronald Regan and others were determined to make the war on drugs seem exponentially more serious, as they “couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black. But by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt their communities” (former Nixon domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman.). When presidents would use ads to fight the war on drugs, they perfectly knew they were trying to do which was to gain support by people who were racist. Many rules were created like the