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"Since most of these workers were Black or from Latin America," more like, "Since most of these workers are poor,"
by chrisweekly 4y ago
"Since most of these workers were Black or from Latin America,"
more like, "Since most of these workers are poor,"
- birdyrooster 4y agoIt’s America and it’s about race because if you look like the people this country historically extracted free labor from, then you are much more likely to be treated poorly for profit. Being poor is different than being poor and black or latino in America. Our livelihoods ride on the manufactured failure of specific groups of people for political reasons. Then here you come calling it all poor people, erasing the specific struggles that enable the system. If you are going to argue on behalf of white people, which ones? What are the lineages of people who were affected most? Who cause the harm? Was redress made? American Descendents of Slavery haven’t gotten their reparations yet, and LatAm is still an American-managed cluster fuck.
- cjohnson318 4y agoYou're welcome to challenge the "it's not race, it's poverty" assertion anytime you want by hopping on a flight to Shreveport, Alexandria, or Opelousas, and just walking around. In places like that, where the population is about 50% black, and 50% of the population is under the poverty line, you'll notice that nearly 100% of the non-managerial people working at fast food places are non-white. I don't know what the appropriate coin-flipping analogy is, but it's like getting heads a lot of times.