Zimmerman had injuries that backed up his story. Martin died because Zimmerman exercised self-defense after Martin jumped on Zimmerman, punched him in the nose and pounded his head into the pavement. No, Woodrow Wilson didn’t say “The Birth of a Nation” was “history written with lightning.” No, Trayvon Martin didn’t die because of Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law, which wasn’t even cited by George Zimmerman’s defenders. Viewers (such as film critics) who don’t pay especially close attention to the news pages are likely to be suckered by the misinformation in the movie. If this were so controversial, why has no one thought to be outraged about it before? The US, like every other country on Earth, can lock you up if you are convicted of a crime. But this isn’t a loophole, it’s just a restatement of common sense. The “loophole”? Convicted criminals can still be deprived of liberty. It’s all for the noble cause of leveling out our incarceration rate, right?ĭuVernay constructs her film around the fatuous notion that the 13th Amendment, which outlawed slavery, was deliberately constructed with a loophole that was meant to continue the mass enslavement of black people using indirect means. Go ahead, lean on your local judges to let murderers and rapists off with a warning. If you think judges should sentence criminals based not on what they’ve been convicted of, but based on international incarceration disparities, fine. Equating Donald Trump supporters with Deep South lynch mobs isn’t even its most outlandish tactic.ĭuVernay, the director of “Selma,” begins the film with a much-discussed but irrelevant statistic: The US, home to 5 percent of the world’s population, is also home to (nearly) 25 percent of the world’s prisoners.Īnyone who has ever thought about this imbalance, which tends to get trotted out in campaign seasons, will quickly understand the reason why: The US has a lot more crime than other countries. Instantly acclaimed as one of the most important documentaries of the year, Ava DuVernay’s film about the mass incarceration of black men, “13th,” wowed audiences at the New York Film Festival and looks like a leading Oscar contender as it premieres in theaters and on Netflix on Friday.ĭisappointingly, given the importance of the underlying issues, the film is a morass of distortions, half-truths, calculated omissions, absurd hyperbole and outright falsehoods. Thanksgiving is a holiday dedicated to gratitude and tolerance - so the woke have their knives out for itįrom Virginia to Seattle, voters chant 'Let's go Brandon' in Biden-snubbing election Is anyone buying this ridiculous Kamala and Pete show? Who can believe one word Jussie Smollett says?
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