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DESCRIPTION:The words of the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution were supposed to 
 guarantee that slavery and involuntary servitude effectively were outlawed. 
 With the exception of punishment for a crime where the “party shall have 
 been convicted.” That’s the loophole. And as detailed in Ava 
 DuVernay’s “The 13th”, the injustice system in America has not 
 changed all that much since the earliest days of slavery. The statistics 
 DuVernay puts onscreen say it all: African-Americans make up 6.5% of the 
 U.S. population but a whopping 40% of the prison population — in a 
 country with the highest level of incarceration in the world; up more than 
 tenfold since 1970 and existing mostly to put away black and Latino men.  
 It all comes down to money. That was the driving force in the beginning, 
 when slavery effectively was ended, but the South had to figure out a way 
 to balance the economics when suddenly short about 4 million slaves. Using 
 the loophole in the 13th Amendment, Southerners started putting blacks in 
 prisons for petty reasons and used them as a workforce without calling them 
 “slaves.” Today the practice is very much alive, overcrowding our 
 prisons and filling them with minorities, the most vulnerable and 
 underprivileged among us.\n\nSponsored by the BFUU Social Justice Ctee as 
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 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/27/18796873.php
SUMMARY:Screening of: 13th
LOCATION:Berkeley Fellowship of Unitarian Universalists’ Hall \n1924 Cedar 
 (@Bonita), Berkeley   www.bfuu.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2017/02/27/18796873.php
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