The imminent historian Marvin Dunn (author of the seminal history of Miami, "Black Miami") taught me some really cool stuff when I was in Miami researching the history of the Good Bread Alley neighborhood of early 20th century "Coloured Town." While driving me around Miami giving me the history and lay of the land he told me that often in "Colored Town," the sheriff would stroll through looking for men coming in from working the night shift.
If they were sitting on their front porch eating breakfast after coming home from a long day of work followed by a 3 hour walk home, the sherrif would arrest them for "loitering" (on the steps of their own godammned houses) and send them to jail with a 30 day sentence to pick lemons in Lemon City. This was generally how Miami's citrus crop got brought in annually under budget...with forced "slave labor"
Them folks was some devious motherf*ckers...hmmm....
I would wager stuff like this still happens all over the world where American corps have folks working in corp camps tapping rubber trees and building nike sneakers for a penny day....that's why middle class jobs hardly exist in America...why pay for labor when you can enslave whole families for generations...for a dime a day....
We must finally learned to stop repeating the sins of our fathers...
Life is valuable...once we comitt to honoring that, our moral barometer at home and abroad will change the face of the planet...
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