This documentary is fine in terms of production standards and some of what it says is true. However, it only presents one side of the issue and omits many important pieces of information.
Only two conservative voices are featured and both of them get little screen time. Grover Norquist gets in perhaps 3 sentences and makes perfect sense before the documentary quickly moves on and forgets about him.
Some of the main issues include: * They don't mention crime rates. They only focus on incarceration rates. There's a reason politicians were pushing hard on the crime issue in the 80s and 90s.
* They say that early activists were targeted by the FBI for "being black". They ignore other factors, like the fact that some of these activists were murder suspects.
* They act as if the condition of ending slavery except for criminals was some special tactic to keep enslaving black people. But if you can't enslave criminals, that means you can't have prisons or other punishments.
* They show edited versions of some evidence, for example in the Trayvon Martin case. Zimmerman only reported Martin's race when he was asked by the police for that information, which is a standard way to track down a suspect.
Again, some of the ideas in this documentary are reasonable. But there's little effort made to present an objective take. Only evidence which supports the agenda of the director is included. Which is a shame, because the subject is worthy of in-depth analysis and discussion.
Only two conservative voices are featured and both of them get little screen time. Grover Norquist gets in perhaps 3 sentences and makes perfect sense before the documentary quickly moves on and forgets about him.
Some of the main issues include: * They don't mention crime rates. They only focus on incarceration rates. There's a reason politicians were pushing hard on the crime issue in the 80s and 90s.
* They say that early activists were targeted by the FBI for "being black". They ignore other factors, like the fact that some of these activists were murder suspects.
* They act as if the condition of ending slavery except for criminals was some special tactic to keep enslaving black people. But if you can't enslave criminals, that means you can't have prisons or other punishments.
* They show edited versions of some evidence, for example in the Trayvon Martin case. Zimmerman only reported Martin's race when he was asked by the police for that information, which is a standard way to track down a suspect.
Again, some of the ideas in this documentary are reasonable. But there's little effort made to present an objective take. Only evidence which supports the agenda of the director is included. Which is a shame, because the subject is worthy of in-depth analysis and discussion.