I'm a southerner. I've lived in many of the southern states from FL to CA, with home being GA. 150 years later, and seeing how race relations have taken a more passive aggressive stance on both sides, I think either all former slaves should have been properly resettled back in their home continent, or given some of the southeastern states and seceded from the USA to form their own nation. Perhaps bounded by the mississippi river on the west, taking MS AL GA FL and SC, forcing whites out of those states. Blacks could then do what they want and be judged by their own instead of whites being blamed for their behavior.
At the beginning of the movie, it was said we have 25% of the prison population and therefore the only answer was to reduce prison populations with no mention of reducing crime. Later on in the movie, the unfairness of sentences between crack / cocaine, which I somewhat agree. But I think if cocaine sentences were made equal to crack, it would have just increased the price reduced the amount of usage by whites.
Also, the movie shows it's ludicrous in claiming the Central Park Five were completely innocent - as in never came in contact with Meili. The only thing proven was they never came inside her. Do your own research.
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activista
8 years ago
@kevin70
Are you serious? Black people were segregated because it was WHITE PEOPLE who decided we should be. Black people (as slaves) never had any damn choice in the matter. And black people MADE this country---he entire damn economic engine of the South was slavery. This is OUR country too---nobody was ever really going to send the slaves back to Africa(that was a pipe dream,anyway) because all that cheap,unpaid labor they got/beat/forced out of the slaves was making the South too damn rich---that's why they didn't want slavery to end.
Also, the movie shows it's ludicrous in claiming the Central Park Five were completely innocent - as in never came in contact with Meili. The only thing proven was they never came inside her. Do your own research.
Uh,seriously? Did you not see the documentary that came out about the Central Park Five a couple of years ago? None of the boys ever even laid eyes on Melli,or ever came into contact with her, period. A guy who had been convicted of several rapes and a murder confessed to assaulting the Central Park Jogger (his own DNA was the only DNA found on her person.) So why you would sit there and tell that lie when they were completely cleared and found innocent is so ridiculous---especially when there was never any evidence to prove that they did anything, and the fact that they were basically railroaded into prison because of people's fear of crime and a media which declared them guilty from the get-go. I mean, come on--this is the internet, you could have easily done the research and found this out yourself. You didn't even bother to do your own damn research on the matter.
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Van-Fro
8 years ago
The Central Park Five were flat-out innocent. The only "evidence" was coerced confessions. The evidence is clear that there was a single person involved and his DNA was found on the victim. You are in complete denial if you don't think they are innocent.
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