Just watched 13th, a thought provoking documentary. America has 5% of the world’s population, but 25% of the worlds prisoners. Did you also know that there are more Black Americans in prison now than there were slaves incarcerated under slavery in 1850?
As part of the 13th Amendment of the US constitution slavery is forbidden “except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted”, and some big name companies like Victoria’s Secret and McDonalds have profited from this.
In the past it was Slavery, The Convict Lease System, Jim Crow, Segregation, and in more recent times ALEC, Mass Incarceration and now Prison-Industrial Complex that have proved to be systemic methods of oppression and injustice that are seriously affecting black communities in the USA.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5895028/