Interviewing scholars and activists ranging from Angela Davis to rapper/Oscar winner Common, the film trots out images of lynchings, cellphone videos of police abuse and footage from the 1815 D.W. Did you know that while the America has more than just 5% of the world’s population, we have more than 25% of the world’s population in prisoners? It is a proven fact that one in three prisoners are black men and more than 60% of the people in the prison system are people of color.
In 1970, there were 200,000 prisoners and today the numbers are staggering toward more than 2 million. In a year that has seen a black life murdered or jailed at a rapid rate, a movement incited by people of all races speaking out on the injustices called #BlackLivesMatter and year in film that began with the hashtag #oscarssowhite, 13th brings to the forefront a much need conversation about mass incarceration of people of color.įrom Jim Crow laws to Nixon’s “war on drugs” to Bill Clinton’s “three strikes” legislation, mass incarceration is a real issue and one that sorely needs investigating and discussing. Prisoners are paid a pittance for their labor. A system, in which many prisons are run by major corporations (Walmart and Victoria’s Secret) for profit. In fact, it’s actually evolved into our current system of mass incarceration. Leave it to director Ava Duvernay to break it all the way down to make a case out of the fact that slavery hasn’t really been abolished. It declared that “neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”
What do we really know about it other than it was part of the constitution that kicked slavery to the curb.
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