According to the film, black males had not been considered particularly dangerous before D.W. This documentary takes particular aim at the influential epic film “The Birth of a Nation” (1915) as being a catalyst and a blueprint for the revival of the Ku Klux Klan and the criminalization and vilification of black males in particular. The 13th Amendment (see the excellent film “Lincoln” about how this amendment was passed by Congress) reads in section one: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.”Īccording to this film, the parenthetical expression in the first sentence of the amendment, “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted” constitutes a “loophole” which has been used ever since to persecute and exploit blacks economically and politically.
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The filled-to-overflowing prison population in the U.S., the Black Lives Matter movement and the election of Donald Trump are all tied together in this movie that gets its name from the 13th Amendment to the Constitution. Laramie Movie Scope: 13th Laramie Movie Scope: 13th A haunting history of American racism by Robert Roten, Film Criticĭecem- This documentary about America's enormous prison industry and how it came about is powerful and provocative.
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