Incarceration In African American Community

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Throughout time the influence between incarceration rate in the African American community has been changed through a course, of the words slavery to criminal. The real first step that the word slavery was change was by the 13th Amendment instead of labeling a free man a Slave you label them as a criminal they will work for you for free as long as they were criminals in the eye of the system. The Next Step was for people to believe that criminals Are created Born Into the world by giving these people a characteristic View to Society many people believe that these people should be labeled as criminal off the bat a movie call The Birth of a Nation did that. All of this happened in the past now in the future the word slavery is just labeled …show more content…

that's what the 13 amendment promise for the one thing that I did not promise is the freedom of criminal this was our biggest loophole in the 13th Amendment a loophole that led to massive arrest of the African American communities charged with the smallest prime they were sent to present this loophole was away to call and have a free man a slave. ‘’Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.(Xiii amendment)If you were to able to break down the sentence into smaller parts it does state that nobody should be a Slave but it does say the punishment is for criminals and they need to get convicted for their crimes for that punishment to be created but it also States it only is restrained in the United States they cannot take them out of the United States but the thing about it it's all about the jurisdiction that plays a key factor in the process of convicting a criminal. we know that any form of slavery was abolished but if you were labeled as the criminal you still technically a slave but this time in the eye of the justice system but they just fancy It Up by saying you're just Criminal and we know that many jurisdictions or mostly …show more content…

brought to you by Wikipedia The Birth of a Nation It gave a view of how Society view the free man do to the 13 amendment is show us how the 13 amendment affected people mindset that that the minority group of the African American Community was shunned by the behavior of the movie calling them beasts and as sexually deprived animal mostly towards them males. In the birth of the a nation many roles were played by white actors in Black face they portrayed them as unintelligible and sexually aggressive towards white woman and the Ku Klux Klan as a heroic force stopping these Beast when the 13th amendment was in place Giving them their freedom. these characteristics in society are deem as criminal intention ,uncivilized people That should be locked away to keep the rest of society safe. associating them buy Theory as criminals meaning nobody will question if they were really innocent in the first

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