Synopsis
From slave to criminal with one amendment
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
2016 Directed by Ava DuVernay
An in-depth look at the prison system in the United States and how it reveals the nation's history of racial inequality.
Jelani Cobb Angela Davis Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Michelle Alexander Cory Booker Marie Gottschalk Michael Hough Gina Clayton David Keene James Kilgore Bryan Stevenson Nicholas Turner John Hagan Van Jones Barack Obama Bill Clinton Jimmy Carter George W. Bush Donald Trump George H. W. Bush Hillary Clinton Martin Luther King Jr. Malcolm X Lyndon B. Johnson Richard Nixon Nancy Davis Reagan Ronald Reagan Gerald Ford Michael Dukakis Show All…
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this week i’ve been thinking a lot about ways in which i could help. i can’t do or give as much as some can, but i do have this platform on a site that i dearly love, and i intend on using it for a moment to try and help:
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this was an absolute mandatory watch to recognise the systematic racism within the police force, government and the rest of the world.
It is not enough to share a blacked out screen on Instagram or retweet one #blacklivesmatter post on twitter. we need to stand up, use our voices to amplify and to challenge anti-black actions. we need to become allies, acknowledge our privilege and use it to educate others & help poc. DO NOT STAY SILENT.
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if you’re not angry, then you’re not paying attention.
lotta people will undoubtably only see this as a primer to the issue (dismissing how important primers are, i guess) but there's an astounding power to the way duvernay sequences this, the way she moves us through the major events, records and timelines with passion and anger, allowing black voices & art to naturally narrate, connecting the simple progression of power, policy and victim into the larger, shape-shifting systemic evil we're still allowing to abolish the freedoms/end the lives of lower class citizens, especially POC, today. one moment near the end that cinematically connects footage at trump rallies to footage from the civil rights movement in the 60s is absolutely harrowing as she goes on to present an essential & compelling case…
35/100
Not a bad film, exactly—just one that I didn't need to watch, telling me a whole lot of things that I already know. First half hour in particular laboriously outlines 20th-century racial politics, assuming ignorance of such basics as The Birth of a Nation, Jim Crow laws, and the Southern strategy; I felt like I'd accidentally wandered into an 8th-grade history class, started wondering if maybe there were some papers I could correct. Eventually, DuVernay starts making a cogent, vital argument, viz. the tactical imprisonment of African-Americans as an extension of slavery, but in a way that still seems to be pitched at extremely low-information viewers. I was more or less familiar with the substance of O.J.: Made in…
THIS is what they should be showing you in US history in high school. Watch this. Then tell everyone you know to watch this.
“People say all the time, ‘well, I don’t understand how people could have tolerated slavery?’ ‘How could they have made peace with that?’ ‘How could people have gone to a lynching and participated in that?’ ‘That’s so crazy, if I was living at that time I would never have tolerated anything like that.’ And the truth is we are living in this time, and we are tolerating it.”
our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter
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This excellent documentary by director Ava DuVernay takes its name from the 13th amendment to the United States Constitution, which (purportedly) abolished slavery before proficiently displaying the fact that oppression has survived simply by just transforming, and that it's mostly mentalities and behaviours which require modification on an absolute level. There's an extensive assortment of historical footage which both distresses and inflames which are worked in with the talking head interviews of scholars, present-day politicians, as well as activists in the Black Lives Matter movement.
The roster of the people that DuVernay manages to recruit is impressive. They assist in affirming her assertions very convincingly, and while there are tremendous amounts of horrendous statistics presented, the facts are never delivered…
It starts off loud yet the energy never settles. Its main focus may sometimes get off track, but for a documentary that covers so much history relative to its runtime this structure works pretty well. It’s definitely worth watching, even if you think you already know everything.
Justice too long delayed is justice denied.