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Main Paineframe posted:Slavery still persists today in the agricultural sector. Florida farmworker organizations allege that there's over a thousand literal slaves - minority workers in involuntary servitude, forced to work for masters who buy and sell them as if they were objects - working various fields in Florida today, and have enough escaped slaves and imprisoned slaveowners to prove they're not just making it all up. My father works in shirt printing in florida and was asked by his boss one day to pick up shirts from a different shop down near miami. He said when he got there you could see prison bars on these little rooms that looked like they kept there workers in. He also noticed the spanish workers hands were cuffed to where they were working.
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E-Tank posted:Did he report it to the police? 'cause...that sounds like a slave run labor camp. He did an anonymous tip after he was laid off like six months later. I don't know if anything came of it. If you're surprised about stuff like this happening, right now where I live in a poor Spanish area their is a cocaine dealing business going on under cover of being a repair shop. Its open twenty four hours and you never see them actually working on anycars AND it's most "busy" at night. All the cops know they're there and yet do nothing. The word on the street is that they're giving kickbacks to the cops so they can operate. This is still in florida. EA Sports fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Jun 15, 2014 |
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Omi-Polari posted:This kind of thinking is a reflection of a strain of paranoia among a minority within the black community. It's not entirely paranoid or unjustified (whites did -- in fact -- enslave them), but it's still paranoid. Most white people would be appalled at the thought today. Many prisons charge you for being kept there. If you do not work while you are there they will hold you on a poo poo load of money when you get out. If you don't pay it it doesn't just mess up your credit either, since you technically owe the government. They can withhold issuing you a license.
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It was a joke thread by a negative postcount dude in gbs.
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Jun 19, 2014 02:12
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Everybody faces racism. what do you mean? 
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natetimm posted:You better not be a white person relating this anecdote otherwise some black feminist on a blog says shut up. I am and I generally agree with the sentiment. Racism makes more sense as a systemic benefit to a class thats primarily based on race or culture, which is what it's like in most of the world. Hopefully that's how they're teaching children about it now rather than just racism = hating because of skin like when we were in school. The way I experienced racism imo is that even though I grew up in a poor black neighborhood and got a felony. I literally got a job instantly in that neighborhood after I got out even though many of my friends have been jobless for months. Make matters worse I wouldn't even have a felony if cops didnt try to pin one crime commited by a dude in a car to the other people who were there in that neighborhood. its a systemic effect from stereotypes and cultural holdovers of a truly racist society. EA Sports fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Jun 19, 2014 |
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SickZip posted:True Story: In men, bicep circumference is a good predictor of being right-wing or left-wing. Physical strength exerts more of an effect than actual economic circumstances. Weaker men are inclined to be left economically while stronger men favor the right. So yeah, probably. That's more of a rural/city thing than what you are alluding to.
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