Response To 13th

Response of 13th
The thirteen Amendment says that except for criminals, everybody else is free.
The movie 13th mainly discusses the problem of racism and mass incarceration after the civil war. Specifically, it is covered in the documentary that many poor black people were put in jail due to minor misbehaviors and were forced to work for the country under convict leasing. Moreover, black people were treated unfairly and sometimes were tortured unlawfully in the society. The “War on drugs” declared by conservative Republicans were biased against black community and resulted in a significant increase in incarceration in the late 20th. In addition, a lot of companies such as Walmart cooperated with States in terms of private prison constructions and gained a huge amount of profits as a result.
At the end of Slavery change, even though Blacks were

freed from their previous owners, but their socioeconomic status had not improved significantly. the 13th amendment says except for all criminals, everybody else is free, but here the loophole is “criminals”, and this time the Whites made the Black become “criminals”. As mentioned in the movie, after the civil war, a lot of black people were arrested for minor crimes and eventually again Whites took Blacks under control. And the labor of Black people exploited to rebuild the economy after the civil war in the south. Once again, the Whites dominated the labor of Blacks and benefited from it.
The “War on Drugs” was adopted by the Republican Party and the “War on Drugs” was featured in mandatory, lengthy sentencing. However, according to the movie, the “War” was essentially an action robbing the labor force of Blacks because the action could have been prejudiced against Blacks. And the War was an important cause of the increased number of black people in prisons. As evidenced by the documentary, as the number of criminals increased in prisons, Blacks gradually dominated the prisons.
As the increase of criminals in number, the demand of prisons started increasing. Since it is profitable from mass incarceration. many big companies such as Walmart satisfied the demand through building prison industrial complex. These companies inflated the price of prison industrial complex, and have made a huge amount of profit. For example, SECURUS provided telephone services for private prisons and charged inmates and inmates’ families 1.5 times as much as the minimum wage for just 10 minutes calling. In addition, Corizon healthcare provided health care services and made millions of dollars from its contract with private prisons. Besides, private prisons also supplied cheap imprisoned labors to companies like Vitoria secrets and Microsoft to make profits.
Personally, I was astonished to see how severe racism has been in past decades as America developed.

Even though we have witnessed a portion of Black people rising up such as Barack Obama, Lebron James, there are still a lot of Blacks suffering from enfranchisement, torture, and double standard of law. Being a developed and powerful country, the issue of racism is worth noticing. The critical part of the issue is that law seems ineffective to protect poor Black people. That’s why so many Blacks are powerless when bullied by people like police or associations like Ku Klux Klan. So it is crucial to consolidate the law to keep Blacks’ personal rights from being violated. Besides, we need to stress the education of Blacks, especially those in poverty. One of the reasons why Blacks have been treated unequally to Whiles is because they did not contrite as much to the nation as Whites, and education inequality could partially account for this result. Being more powerful is more likely to be respected by others. Thus. Shrinking the gap of education quality between the Black community and White community could alleviating

racism.