THE NUMBER THIRTEEN...

One is never supposed to watch/read scary things before bedtime. No horror flicks, movies with a lot of violence, etc...  Unless that is if you like having scary, disturbing dreams. The number in the title of Natureman's Netflix pick should have been a red flag as it contained the number 13.  It was disturbing, leaving me irritated,  disgusted and certainly unsettled for sleep...

The movie's title was 13th and it was not your typical type of horror story... The monsters of the story weren't wearing costumes, in fact, they look like people like you and me if you are white. Their horrendous actions are taken upon people with a different skin color.

FACT: One out of 4 people in the world are locked up and behind bars here in our country, the U.S.A. 
FACT: One out of three black males will be incarcerated at some time in his life.
FACT:In 1972 the prison population numbered 300,00 today that number is 2.3 million

AND the FACTS keep coming in Ava DuVernay's 2016 NETFLIX original documentary called 13th after the 13th Amendment to the Constitution - 

“Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.”


If you think we abolished slavery, you haven't been paying attention because you don't have to ... If you have any doubt/ need reaffirmation/ how about 'knowledge' regarding one of our broken systems in this country, watch this documentary but just don't do it right before bedtime. It is a scary story whose narrative needs to change. It's a narrative of 150 years in the making...Why do WE have the highest rate of incarceration in the world?

It's time to fix broken and put the 'human' back into humanity.

* You can also look on YOUTUBE to watch 13th.