Ree4
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Check out the Netflix documentary "13th". It paints a pretty good picture of why we're in the situation we are today.
Oppression of the African American community has been rampant for centuries. While things have no doubt improved, they are very far from perfect. Mass incarceration in for profit prisons with an average wage of $1.15 per hour is equivalent to modern day slavery. Even state prisons have large corporations that bring in overpriced food and other goods needed by inmates. This country will do absolutely anything to make money.
Nixon started this with the "War on Drugs", Reagan continued and expanded it. Joe Biden had a pretty big hand in things as well with the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
With all the Authoritarian regimes in this world why does the United States, the Land of the Free, make up 25% of the global population of inmates? Our prisons are meant to punish, not to rehabilitate. Check out recidivism rates, for state prisoners its 83%. That's ridiculous.
As a country we're so concerned about fixing the issues at the surface level when it bubbles over - stopping cops from killing black folks, but we don't actually give a shit about the underlying causes that creates these incidents. Until we recognize and abolish these cogs things will not improve much.
13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix
Combining archival footage with testimony from activists and scholars, director Ava DuVernay's examination of the U.S. prison system looks at how the country...
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Oppression of the African American community has been rampant for centuries. While things have no doubt improved, they are very far from perfect. Mass incarceration in for profit prisons with an average wage of $1.15 per hour is equivalent to modern day slavery. Even state prisons have large corporations that bring in overpriced food and other goods needed by inmates. This country will do absolutely anything to make money.
Nixon started this with the "War on Drugs", Reagan continued and expanded it. Joe Biden had a pretty big hand in things as well with the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994.
With all the Authoritarian regimes in this world why does the United States, the Land of the Free, make up 25% of the global population of inmates? Our prisons are meant to punish, not to rehabilitate. Check out recidivism rates, for state prisoners its 83%. That's ridiculous.
As a country we're so concerned about fixing the issues at the surface level when it bubbles over - stopping cops from killing black folks, but we don't actually give a shit about the underlying causes that creates these incidents. Until we recognize and abolish these cogs things will not improve much.