13th video response

Watch the documentary, 13th, available on Netflix. If you do not have access to Netflix, you need to let me know ASAP.
After viewing the film, answer each of the following questions. Your responses for each question should be no less than 150 words – per question, not total.
What are your initial reactions after viewing13th?
How does 13th characterize our criminal justice system and political institutions? How did this film shape your understanding of the prison system? Was there a particular case or series of facts that altered or challenged any of your pre-existing views? Explain.
How do you think media and popular culture representations of Black Americans, particularly of Black men, have contributed to a dangerous climate of white fear and anxiety? (Think back to the way George Zimmerman was heard describing Trayvon Martin, or the media frenzy around the Central Park Five that resulted in their wrongful imprisonment.) How can we challenge these instances of racism and dehumanization? Whose responsibility is it?
This documentary emphasizes that the current crisis of mass incarceration is directly tied to our country’s legacy and history of slavery. By showing how slavery shifted to convict leasing, to Jim Crow segregation, to the war on drugs,13th argues that “systems of oppression are durable and they often reinvent themselves.”What are ways society can end this cycle? What do you think are some of the factors that allowed this system of racial control to simply evolve and replicate itself for the past 150 years?
After viewing the film, what suggestions do you have for the preparation of teachers, school counselors, social workers, principals etc. What are the implications for schools?

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