Slavery in America

Michael Hawkins at Spontaneous Arising references a must-read story on immigrant workers being taken advantage of by sheep ranchers.

I am so in-line with Michael calling it slavery. I feel most folks think of slavery as someone literally chained with visible physical abuse. However, I believe the economic chaining we as American citizens allow and accept in this country is slavery and insidiously evil in its spooning that we drink down with thankfulness. When we say it is acceptable to pay someone $5.40/hr, we say slavery is acceptable. When it is ok for executives to make 10,000x what employees of the same company make, we say slavery is acceptable. And when citizens would rather be so angry at their fellow citizens for getting a handout of a few thousand each year rather than the corporations and its executives essentially getting handouts of millions each year, I just have to think I hope it's good. Whatever you're smoking that blinds you to the real inequities, I hope it's good.

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