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Themes within the 13th main theme: Systematic Injustice,, Final idea is…

- - - - These politicans along side with everything else lead to an unfair war on drugs. Where african americans were given significantly more years in prison for the same type of crime as white people.
        
        This continued the stereotype of the high and angry african american figure. With the clear depicitionon the man being a criminal and ofender who should not be treated like a human. Second class citizen.
        
        In teh end the topic that i belive is most suatable for the exploration of systematic inequalities in the 13th documentary is "Crime" viewed from the angle of the black people and how the criteria for crime for african americans was completely different when compared to white people.
        
        To what extent was African American crime judged more harshly, given longer prison sentences, and societaly more degrading?
        
        Kendrick Lamar song which describes all of these points incredibly well is the song titled "Hood politics" it takes into account and describes all of the inequalities and difficulties which black people in America face. The global issue in this case being the reduction of inequality as a whole, as in reduction in biases that we as individuals face, as well as biases that exist in the laws.
        
        To what extent are crimes committed by African Americans judged harsher, both legislative and socially?
        
        The documentary portrays racism through the entirety of the film, but most importantly, the documentary starts off where the real world events did, with the emancipation of black people in the south. It shows how black people were originally enslaved, and had to work their whole lives without even the slightest glimmer of hope for a nice and relaxing life. After which the story pans into the fact that even after the emancipation, blacks were incarceration and treated as slaves again. One of they key points made in the introduction of the 13th is the fact that the initial as well as the final draft of the emancipation proclamation, and the 13th amendment had a loophole which allowed for slaves, but only if they were criminals. Then, low and behold, thousands upon thousands of more african americans start being convicted unfairly for small crimes. In the introductory part of the documentary, the message of racism against african americans is displayed through the unfair treatment, freeing, and incarceration of them.
        
        People who have to undergo discrimination, systematic racism, and other events out of their control often get victimized by society. This still from the Netflix documentary showcases that in many cases people are not to blame for their horrific living conditions, and very often it is the greater powers that be (politicians, corporate interests, and elitists) who choose what happens. The quote on screen is from a secret audio recording, which contained the message that we know these laws cause black people to suffer while white people do not, but we don't care (along with a few n-words in the speech). This demonstrates that much of the discrimination in America was caused by racism and politics, rather than by the oppressed people. Over generations, legislative and social systems were built to discriminate against African Americans, resulting in a cyclical system in which people believed in stereotypes brought about by these restrictions, which furthered America's laws and social values. Overall, politicians and society as a whole created discrimination and class systems against African Americans. .
    - - While the documentary does not cover poverty as a main topic or issue, All of the other issues that are directly addressed within the documentary stem from poverty and poor living conditions that have been forced upon African-American communities. The still that has been chosen for this topic is the one depicting the forceful movement of African Americans from the south to the north after the 13th Amendment. Even though they were granted full and equal rights as white people, they were not treated as such in the South. This caused the majority of African-Americans to move to crowded, low-opportunity suburbs in the northern states. Consequently, the racism in these towns, along with crime, low economic prospects, and the discriminating class system, all lead to generations poverty being carried on between African-American families.