13th Movie Analysis
The documentary 13th, was an eye opening experience. It was a film in which it displayed issues of violence, crime, and race. In particular, I found it very interesting how the documentary stigmatized black men as violent individuals. How did they come up with this stigmatization? Was it based off of past historical events such as slavery and segregation? Anyone can be considered violent. Someone's race doesn’t define whether or not they are violent; it is an individual’s actions that determines whether they are considered a violent individual or not. Also, I found it very interesting how the amount of arrests increased each year due to the drug war. I didn’t realize that drugs were a huge issue in our country. I thought the biggest issue
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Images regarding to the Ku Klux Klan stood out the most to me. These particular images stood out to me because this topic in history I didn't really talk alot about in my history classes in elementary, middle, and high school years, so seeing these images allowed me to make more sense of this topic and understand it from another perspective. Often times in history class, we talked about the positive events of American history and tended to neglect negative events in history. As a country, we tend to feel that we are the most existential country due to the fact that we like to think we are the most superior country in the nation and that every other nation is beneath us. In particular, the Ku Klux Klan images were shocking in the sense they showed this clan beating up innocent African Americans as well as lynching them. The Ku Klux Klan believed in white supremacy, the idea in which white people are the most superior race in the United States and therefore should dominate the country; therefore African Americans were targeted because of their difference in …show more content…
I already knew that the United State’s government system is corrupt. In particular, it talked about Bill Clinton’s presidency. Bill Clinton’s presidency was from January 20, 1993-January 20, 2001. As we all know, Bill Clinton was impeached from office due to obstruction of justice and perjury. Bill Clinton established the Clinton Foundation in which it was a non profit organization that helped. The FBI is currently under investigation with this foundation. They suspect that the Clinton foundation donations went to Hillary Clinton as she was secretary of state during Obama’s presidency. It’s interesting how politicians can tell our country something that sounds great, but in turn it tends to be corrupt and damaging. There is always a catch to everything. Although a certain group of people benefit from the idea, there are always people who have to make up for it. For example, the idea of free healthcare sounds great. There is no such thing as free. Money has to come from somewhere. In this case, the minorities would be getting free healthcare and the middle class and upper class citizens would have their taxes increase to make up for the minority’s free healthcare. This shows that our government is corrupt due to the fact that they deceive people. An example of this is Obama Care. The government deceived people by making them think that there can be such a thing as free healthcare and then go behind the
Images regarding to the Ku Klux Klan stood out the most to me. These particular images stood out to me because this topic in history I didn't really talk alot about in my history classes in elementary, middle, and high school years, so seeing these images allowed me to make more sense of this topic and understand it from another perspective. Often times in history class, we talked about the positive events of American history and tended to neglect negative events in history. As a country, we tend to feel that we are the most existential country due to the fact that we like to think we are the most superior country in the nation and that every other nation is beneath us. In particular, the Ku Klux Klan images were shocking in the sense they showed this clan beating up innocent African Americans as well as lynching them. The Ku Klux Klan believed in white supremacy, the idea in which white people are the most superior race in the United States and therefore should dominate the country; therefore African Americans were targeted because of their difference in …show more content…
I already knew that the United State’s government system is corrupt. In particular, it talked about Bill Clinton’s presidency. Bill Clinton’s presidency was from January 20, 1993-January 20, 2001. As we all know, Bill Clinton was impeached from office due to obstruction of justice and perjury. Bill Clinton established the Clinton Foundation in which it was a non profit organization that helped. The FBI is currently under investigation with this foundation. They suspect that the Clinton foundation donations went to Hillary Clinton as she was secretary of state during Obama’s presidency. It’s interesting how politicians can tell our country something that sounds great, but in turn it tends to be corrupt and damaging. There is always a catch to everything. Although a certain group of people benefit from the idea, there are always people who have to make up for it. For example, the idea of free healthcare sounds great. There is no such thing as free. Money has to come from somewhere. In this case, the minorities would be getting free healthcare and the middle class and upper class citizens would have their taxes increase to make up for the minority’s free healthcare. This shows that our government is corrupt due to the fact that they deceive people. An example of this is Obama Care. The government deceived people by making them think that there can be such a thing as free healthcare and then go behind the