Download 13th Documentary Reflection Paper and more Lecture notes Psychology in PDF only on Docsity! Running Head: 13th 1 13th Documentary Reflection Paper Cristy Connolly University Of Texas at San Antonio 13TH 2 13th Documentary Reflection Paper Thorough reflection on 13Th is a documentary about African American history and mass incarceration. It is an incredibly eye-opening film. Anyone who watches this film will finish it changed and question the world around them as well as any beliefs they hold. 13th honestly shows two sides of a story that many are not willing to hear. This class prepared me to be understanding rather than defensive. My mom watched parts of it with me. Her commentary was almost as eye opening as the film because at one time I would have probably felt similar. When the film talked about prisoner rates rising, she argued U.S. population totals account for the rise in prisoners. I thought this made sense until I looked into it. The percentage of the population in jail during 1970 was about .06% and today is about .6%. What you learned The movie said that the U.S. consists of five percent of the world’s population and holds twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners, the highest rate of incarceration in the world. One in three black men and one in seventeen white men are likely to spend life in jail. There is a long pattern of whites suppressing blacks and them rightly fighting for their freedom in this country. The emotions you felt The emotions this movie brought up for me were overwhelming. Towards the end of the movie I felt ashamed that I even live in a country that has done/does so many horrible things, and thinks they are acceptable. During the beginning of the movie, I just felt shocked and saddened. By the time the movie started playing audio and video clips of Trump speaking, I felt disgusted and heartbroken. He is our president and misses the “good ol’ days when “black men were just
