Summary Of This Black Soil Documentary
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In the last class we watched the documentary This Black Soil. This documentary tells the story of a rural community of African-Americans on Eartern Shore of Virginia. It was a very low income community that had to face a problem when the Government decided to construct a prison in their area. It was clear why they choose that place for the prison and how they tried to convince the population to accept it. Being a place with 100% African-Americans and low income those people were seen as people without political voice, so everything that the government wanted to do in that place they would succeed. They told the community that the prison would provide more jobs for them, but the community didn't want that dead end jobs. It was nice to see