Thursday, May 28, 2015
Prison has become modern day slavery.
Lately I've been working on this project for Ms. Hegeman class which is social action of our choice. The social action that I really wanted to do was has prison is modern day slavery. I wanted to do this social action because while I was reading Beloved and Heart of Darkness they were talking about how prisoners were treated badly and were being used for cheap work. Reading these two books made me think about the system we have today and how they are setting up our youth for failure. The video that I made was showing how nothing really change within the criminal system and how in many ways it is still slavery. The video contains images showing how the bunks beds in prison looks similar to slave ships, how the both prisoners and slaves were chains around their ankles, wrist. and neck, and many more. (I don't want to give to much away because I want you guys to see it). Also the video contains statics such as how schools leads minorities to prison, and how the United States have more people in prison than any other country. The video is really inspiring because you really get to see how history really repeats itself. I was very surprised on how similar slavery and prison really is. Its sad to say that we live in a world where the people who are suppose to help and protect us are the main one's breaking African Americans and Latinos down. Our young males today have been affected by this. They don't really see a care in the world anymore because this whole country is against them. School is becoming another thing to avoid because the school systems teach us how to depend on other people and work for someone else instead of teaching about our real history and motivating us to do better and why we should do better because the world we living is really a whites man. I really want people to sit down and actually see this video because this is an issue that keeps getting worser by the day. To see the video go to my instagram and click the link in my bio or go to YouTube and type in kamali social action project.
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Why didn't you just include the link in this post?!
ReplyDeleteI agree that prison has become modern day slavery. I also saw your video in Ms. Hegeman's class and I enjoyed it. The message was clear and the visuals were powerful.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your statement that prison has now become a modern day slavery. Prison is a business. Without criminals theres no prisons, without prisons there's no cops, without cops there's no law enforcement, without law enforcement there's no job, and no job means the economy is going down. Once someone has a record they have a tendency of going back because that's how the system was made. Once your in it ruins your chances at having your dream job or what ever else you would want in life. The importance of having a clean record is crucial in today's world.
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