Duvernay essay

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Choose ONE of the two quotes from 13th below. How does the When They See Us show us these experiences? What does it tell us about how these experiences are lived? 1)    Image: “If you look at the history of black people’s various struggles in this country the connecting theme is the attempt to be understood as full complicated human beings. We are something other than this visceral image of criminality and menace and threat which people associate with us” (William Jelani Cobb).   How does When They See Us show both how black people are perceived, and how they are “something other” than this, how they are “full complicated human beings”?   2)    The legal system (police, state prosecutors, prisons): “There has never been a period in our history where the law and order branch of the state has not operated against the freedom, the liberties, the options and choices that have been available for the black community” (Kevin Gannon). How does When They See Us show the legal system operating against “the freedom, the liberties, and the choices that have been available for the black community”?