PRESIDENT RONALD REAGAN: Millions of dollars will be allocated for prison and jail facilities. HILLARY CLINTON: The kinds of kids that are called superpredators. JAMES KILGORE: It became virtually impossible for a politician to run and appear soft on crime. MICHELLE ALEXANDER: Animals, beasts, that needed to be controlled. What you got after that was a rapid transition to a mythology of black criminality. ![]() JELANI COBB: The loophole was immediately exploited. There are exceptions, including criminals. KEVIN GANNON: The 13th Amendment to the Constitution makes it unconstitutional for someone to be held as a slave. KALIEF BROWDER: Then they said, “We’re going to take you to the precinct, and most likely we’re going to let you go home.” But then, I never went home. ![]() VAN JONES: One out of four human beings with their hands on bars, shackled, in the world, are locked up here in the land of the free.ĪMY GOODMAN: Kalief Browder was walking home from a party when he was stopped by police. The film chronicles how our justice system has been driven by racism, from the days of slavery to today. Her recent Netflix documentary, 13th, just picked up three Critics’ Choice Awards and is generating Oscar buzz. JUAN GONZÁLEZ: We spend the rest of our show with acclaimed director and filmmaker Ava DuVernay.
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