13th is a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay. The film explores the "intersection of race, justice, and mass incarceration in the United States;"[3] it is titled after the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, adopted in 1865, which abolished slavery throughout the United States and ended involuntary servitude except as a punishment for conviction of a crime.
DuVernay contends that slavery has been perpetuated since the end of the American Civil War through criminalizing behavior and enabling police to arrest poor freedmen and force them to work for the state under convict leasing; suppression of African Americans by disenfranchisement, lynchings and Jim Crow; politicians declaring a war on drugs that weigh more heavily on minority communities and, by the late 20th century, mass incarceration of people of color in the United States. She examines the prison-industrial complex and the emerging detention-industrial complex, discussing how much money is being made by corporations from such incarcerations.
13th garnered acclaim from a number of film critics. It was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature at the 89th Academy Awards, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Special at the 69th Primetime Emmy Awards.[4] On the other hand, New York magazine film critic David Edelstein writing in Vulture noted: "You’d think from 13th that crime didn’t exist."[5]
Does watching that, and agreeing with the hard data, much like "The Invisible War," make me an SJW pussy? I don't need a documentary I spent 20% of my life incarcerated, I'm white and I got fucked. But I do tell DA's to fuck their faces in courtrooms if they deserve it and I had no money or support. If you're broke you're as bad as being a minority. Trust me, I've lived in ICE units for up to a year, it's really fucked up for poor minorites, especially the ICEers with no civil rights. What's really fucked up is when the Mexican family sells their house for legal fees and the dude loses anyway and they are now homeless. It's insidious too. Every day I was in I could have taken the felony and walked out the door like 98% do. I guess I'm in the 2%. I saw Mexican and black kids 18 taking strikes after 2 days in jail every single day of the week. I saw Laos and Viet gangbangers get 25 to life at 20. Shit is insidious. They don't want you now, if you're a minority, you probably have no money and will take the deal. They want you when they can send you away for a long time with CA's 3-strike law. Like you have no idea what you're talking about and you're calling other people shitty. You're an ignorant fool.
