Rahaf Haddad: Documentary Analysis

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Rahaf Haddad The 13th Documentary This documentary talked about prison people, especially people of color in the United State. It talked about people of color were being discriminated and were put in jail for simple reasons. In which it discussed the 13th amendment about slavery. And this bring us to the identity concept and the racial division that happened in the United State. The documentary started by discussing the 13th amendment and the loophole in it which is the sentence that says “except as a punishment for crime” and it argue that it was written like that to be used like a tool for whoever wants to use it to argue it. It discussed when and how slavery started. And they went over the discussion of identity. How if your

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