13th

The film 13th by Ava DuVernay empowers and alerts the audience to the majority of the discrimination against people of color and especially black people that are victims of extreme predigest against them in so many different parts of life. The film does not signal out one or two individuals but singles out dozens of people in power, people who we think of as leaders, and huge organization that make laws for our country. DuVernays claims that we have not moved past the days of slavery and Jim Crow laws, instead we have just shifted and keep rewriting laws that have people of color in the crosshairs of a loaded gun. The United states claims to be the land of the free, yet we have 25% of the worlds prisoners, with only five percent of the world’s population. Among all the people who live in America black men make about 6.5%, however they represent over 40 percent of our prison system. The minority will always have to fight for equally
This approach often makes a film lose credibility because the director only focuses on one side, however this was not the case in the 13th, where DuVernay effectively sought out problems with both sides. This approach and carefully constructed use of an Ad hominine makes the films case much stronger. A group that was targeted repeatedly throughout the film was the private prison sector, which now is thriving more than ever. The two major corporations, Correction Corporation of America (CCA) and GEO Group stocks “jumped 43 and 21 percent, respectively” (Takel). Not only are these huge increases but they happen all in one day, between November 8th, 2016 and November 9th, 2016. Which begs the question what happened on the night of November 8th, 2016, and the answer is Donald Trump became the next presidential effect for the United States of America. The 13th use of effective Ad Hominines alerts the viewer to how corrupt our political system