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African Americans In The Movie 13th
Watching the film 13th brought a lot of thinking as to how different African Americans were treated in the community because of the new laws throughout each presidency, the presidents created. Many African Americans were incarcerated throughout the years and it was a ridiculous amount of people in jail throughout each President's term. These People were incarcerated for little things and most of them for nothing. The only topic that presidents talked about was crime and how it should be handle. The president's brainwashed the public mainly whites, that they were not safe because African Americans were on the streets. It all started with Richard Nixon and by 1970 an amount of people were put in prison and not for little time but for about 15

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