13TH Documentary Analysis

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13TH is a documentary on Netflix that examines mass incarceration and the connections it has to slavery and Jim Crow segregation. The documentary focuses on how mass incarceration has become monetized and is the new form of slavery in the United States. This system also inherently encourages police and guard brutality. The Civil Rights movement in the 50s and 60s allowed African-Americans to overcome Jim Crow segregation in its current form. The systematic removal of black leaders like MLK, Malcolm X, Fred Hampton, Angela Davis, and others due to assassination or arrest had adverse effects on black communities in the coming decades.
A war focused on drugs implemented by both Nixon and Reagan and effectively continued by H.W. Bush and Clinton