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> Except no white workers wanted to work those jobs as it didn’t pay enough for their standards. Your knowledge of this era of history is incorrect. You are c
by freitzkriesler2 3y ago
> Except no white workers wanted to work those jobs as it didn’t pay enough for their standards.
Your knowledge of this era of history is incorrect. You are correct about the cause of marijuana criminalization but wrong about White laborers in farming during the early 20th century. Whites alongside Hispanic were very common as laborers during the great depression and up to the 60s.
https://www.loc.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-workers-from-1940-to-1941/articles-and-essays/the-migrant-experience/ https://www.loc.gov/collections/todd-and-sonkin-migrant-work...