“The 13th Amendment has a clause that is a criminality clause,” DuVernay explained in an interview with The Huffington Post. DuVernay said she felt the 13th Amendment was worth examining because “most people don’t know about that loop-hole,” she said. That’s tied to [our] past... we don’t know what we’re talking about if you don’t know the history of it. However, it was within the last 50 years that America has seen its biggest boom in the incarceration of black men and women. The two Republican presidents introduced the “War On Drugs,” which not only came with discriminative laws that over-policed, targeted and criminalized black men but also introduced racist rhetoric that wildly painted and perceived all black men to be misfits and criminals.

Source: Huffington Post October 07, 2016 21:22 UTC