Damn this a dope coincidence. Somebody was talking to me about this earlier. Ima check it out.
13th amendment (Netflix Documentary) fukked up.
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newworldafro
DeeperThanRapBiggerThanHH
I'm watching it now, and it's great that this is out there.
Just be careful..........there is an attack on your the Bill of "Your" Rights occurring, which includes the 1st - 10th Amendment...the stuff I think universally most people would support keeping. So although, the 13th obviously deserves some analysis and change, there is this wordplay/mind games to blind people from keeping the Bill of Rights in general...much of which has already been watered down the last 15 years....
Private Prison Corporations Stand With Hillary Clinton
Prison Culture » Bill Clinton Was Incredibly Destructive for Black People…
Apr242012
Bill Clinton Was Incredibly Destructive for Black People…
I have refrained from writing this post for almost two years but I cannot hold back any longer. Bill Clinton is without a doubt my least favorite President of the last 40 years. You read that correctly. But, but, but, what about Ronald Reagan you might ask? What about George W. Bush you might protest? Well for me, the truth is that I expect Republicans to be detrimental to people of color’s prospects. They do not pretend to be interested in our survival.
Bill Clinton, on the other hand, has actively tried to ingratiate himself to black people by appropriating black culture. Think back to his appearance on Arsenio Hall, playing the Sax. Think back to his post-Presidency move to Harlem to locate his Clinton Foundation office there. Think back to the fact that we are incessantly told that Bill Clinton was the “first black” President. What a massive insult! People who speak this nonsense, say it without irony.
There are so many ways that the Clinton Presidency was toxic to black people in particular and people of color in general. I will periodically highlight some of his greatest hits against black people in the coming weeks. Today I want to focus on one piece of legislation that the U.S. Congress passed in 1994 which is still reverberating in 2012. The 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill (spearheaded by Joe Biden and Bill Clinton) cost $30 billion dollars and helped to accelerate the growth of the prison industrial complex in ways that we are only just beginning to understand. The bill’s provisions included:
1. $10.8 billion in federal matching funds to local governments to hire 100,000 new police officers over 5 years.
2. $10 billion for the construction of new federal prisons.
3. An expansion of the number of federal crimes to which the death penalty applied from two to fifty-eight (the bill also eliminated an existing statute that prohibited the execution of mentally incapacitated defendants).
4. A three strikes proposal that mandated life sentences for anyone convicted of three “violent” felonies.
5. A section that allowed children as young as thirteen to be tried as adults.
6. The creation of special courts able to deport noncitizens alleged to be “engaged in terrorist activity” on the basis of secret evidence.
7. Established guidelines for states to track sex offenders. Required states to track sex offenders by confirming their place of residence annually for ten years after their release into the community or quarterly for the rest of their lives if the sex offender was convicted of a violent sex crime. [This sex offender registry law has caused havoc in the legal system]
These are just a few of the greatest hits from the 1994 Crime Bill.
Progressives who are loudly complaining about President Obama’s record on civil liberties (which is abysmal) were overwhelmingly SILENT about Clinton’s dramatic expansion of the prison industrial complex. I remember that period of time clearly. I invite you to send me your own examples of the many ways that Bill Clinton’s presidency was destructive to people of color and I will happily post them here. I think that this is a period of history that many people either don’t know about or are willfully choosing to forget. It should NOT be forgotten since we are living with the consequences of that era today.
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Just be careful..........there is an attack on your the Bill of "Your" Rights occurring, which includes the 1st - 10th Amendment...the stuff I think universally most people would support keeping. So although, the 13th obviously deserves some analysis and change, there is this wordplay/mind games to blind people from keeping the Bill of Rights in general...much of which has already been watered down the last 15 years....
Private Prison Corporations Stand With Hillary Clinton
Prison Culture » Bill Clinton Was Incredibly Destructive for Black People…
Apr242012
Bill Clinton Was Incredibly Destructive for Black People…
I have refrained from writing this post for almost two years but I cannot hold back any longer. Bill Clinton is without a doubt my least favorite President of the last 40 years. You read that correctly. But, but, but, what about Ronald Reagan you might ask? What about George W. Bush you might protest? Well for me, the truth is that I expect Republicans to be detrimental to people of color’s prospects. They do not pretend to be interested in our survival.
Bill Clinton, on the other hand, has actively tried to ingratiate himself to black people by appropriating black culture. Think back to his appearance on Arsenio Hall, playing the Sax. Think back to his post-Presidency move to Harlem to locate his Clinton Foundation office there. Think back to the fact that we are incessantly told that Bill Clinton was the “first black” President. What a massive insult! People who speak this nonsense, say it without irony.There are so many ways that the Clinton Presidency was toxic to black people in particular and people of color in general. I will periodically highlight some of his greatest hits against black people in the coming weeks. Today I want to focus on one piece of legislation that the U.S. Congress passed in 1994 which is still reverberating in 2012. The 1994 Omnibus Crime Bill (spearheaded by Joe Biden and Bill Clinton) cost $30 billion dollars and helped to accelerate the growth of the prison industrial complex in ways that we are only just beginning to understand. The bill’s provisions included:
1. $10.8 billion in federal matching funds to local governments to hire 100,000 new police officers over 5 years.
2. $10 billion for the construction of new federal prisons.
3. An expansion of the number of federal crimes to which the death penalty applied from two to fifty-eight (the bill also eliminated an existing statute that prohibited the execution of mentally incapacitated defendants).
4. A three strikes proposal that mandated life sentences for anyone convicted of three “violent” felonies.
5. A section that allowed children as young as thirteen to be tried as adults.
6. The creation of special courts able to deport noncitizens alleged to be “engaged in terrorist activity” on the basis of secret evidence.
7. Established guidelines for states to track sex offenders. Required states to track sex offenders by confirming their place of residence annually for ten years after their release into the community or quarterly for the rest of their lives if the sex offender was convicted of a violent sex crime. [This sex offender registry law has caused havoc in the legal system]
These are just a few of the greatest hits from the 1994 Crime Bill.
Progressives who are loudly complaining about President Obama’s record on civil liberties (which is abysmal) were overwhelmingly SILENT about Clinton’s dramatic expansion of the prison industrial complex. I remember that period of time clearly. I invite you to send me your own examples of the many ways that Bill Clinton’s presidency was destructive to people of color and I will happily post them here. I think that this is a period of history that many people either don’t know about or are willfully choosing to forget. It should NOT be forgotten since we are living with the consequences of that era today.
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Preaching to the choir 
You Win Perfect
bow down
watching now
Any brehs seen this Netflix documentary?
Ava DuVernay's new Netflix documentary traces a damning line between slavery and mass incarceration - Vox
The movie is named for the 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, which abolished slavery but contained a loophole: "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." In other words, slavery isn’t permitted — but only for people who aren’t convicted of a crime. Once you’re convicted, all bets are off.
shyt is fukked up and cacs have the nerve to act like it's all fine and shyt.
shyt should be seen by all especially fukking cacs.
Because it is all good...for them. They not trying to fix it unless it starts to effect them
Klyk21
Hate is Rising, Love is Dying....
Any brehs seen this Netflix documentary?
Ava DuVernay's new Netflix documentary traces a damning line between slavery and mass incarceration - Vox
The movie is named for the 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, which abolished slavery but contained a loophole: "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." In other words, slavery isn’t permitted — but only for people who aren’t convicted of a crime. Once you’re convicted, all bets are off.
shyt is fukked up and cacs have the nerve to act like it's all fine and shyt.
shyt should be seen by all especially fukking cacs.
Can't believe folks made you have to bump this thread....
Just like when I didn't see many black folks in birth of a nation yesterday. I wanted to go and grab each and every black folk from out the other movies on some "colored only this way" shyt
I'm going to check it out soon though
filial_piety
Banned
will definitely check this out tonight!!!...and just in time because tomorrow I'm going to see Birth of a Nation 
Watching now
DeuceZ
Li pitit gason
the systemReturnOfJudah
Veteran
Any brehs seen this Netflix documentary?
Ava DuVernay's new Netflix documentary traces a damning line between slavery and mass incarceration - Vox
The movie is named for the 13th Amendment, ratified in 1865, which abolished slavery but contained a loophole: "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." In other words, slavery isn’t permitted — but only for people who aren’t convicted of a crime. Once you’re convicted, all bets are off.
shyt is fukked up and cacs have the nerve to act like it's all fine and shyt.
shyt should be seen by all especially fukking cacs.
My girl showed me this today. fukking corporations locking up black folks smh
PhonZhi
Veteran
CinnaSlim
Queen of Swords
Watching now. I loved how they mentioned how media and society stereotype black men as rapists while ignoring the legacy of white men raping black women past and present.
That Kalief Browder story man....
Cabbage Patch
The Media scene in V is for Vendetta is the clue
It's a great documentary.
Black people whofor the Clintons definitely need to watch