13th

13th

1. It is a 2016 American documentary by director Ava DuVernay.

2. It deals with the history of racial inequality in the United States.

3. Counting on the testimonies of experts, activists and politicians who analyze the criminalization of African-Americans and the rise of prisons in the US.

4. Slavery, like matter, is neither created nor destroyed, it only transforms.

5. 40% of US prisoners are black.

6. A black man is more likely to go to jail than a white man.

7. Oppression was not eradicated.

8. There are new forms of oppression.

9. The nation's political leadership used the legal and judicial system to stigmatize Afro-descendants as criminals and deprive them of their freedom.

10. Blacks were jailed for minor crimes.

11. Racial segregation was officially abolished in 1965.

12. Private prison owners are an important factor, as they seek to keep their prisons full in order to put the inmates under their command to work.

13. It teaches that the criminalization and police violence suffered by the black and Latino populations continues to be a stigma.

14. “…race, gender and class are intertwined elements”

15. Slavery is still present, and that exception has been used throughout history as a tool of repression and against racial equality.

16. Movie theaters, buses, bathrooms, everything is separated by race.

17. Nixon wanted to impose a "state of Law and order" and that associates crime with race.

18. Bill Clinton is defined as "the worst of all."

19. Slavery turned into criminalization.

20. Five African-American teenagers charged with a brutal 1989 crime they never committed.

21. Obama, aka 'Oreo' (black on the outside, white on the inside, like 'the best-selling cookie in the world').

22. “The US is home to 5% of the world population but also 25% of the prisoners of the world".

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