Watch a film or documentary (AC-1)

13th (film) - Wikipedia

Points: 5 

The 13th is a film that revolves around the history of racial inequality. I like how the film involved the history of the issue and not just events that unfolded in the present times. The produces really informed me on this issue in more ways than I can say. It also brings up interesting points such as even though slavery was abolished in the 1860s, it connects the thirteenth amendment to the prison industrial complex. Where African-Americans are arrested for minor crimes and taken to prison simply to do free labor in order to get economic gain. This film made me realize just how corrupt any government can be so corrupt just for their benefit and made me question just how far they are willing to go, specially when it comes to people of different race other than white. 

Visualizing the racial disparities in mass incarceration | Prison Policy Initiative

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