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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Date: December 3, 2014, 2:28 pm
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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Date: December 3, 2014, 7:47 pm
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[move]If your are a black male in the USA, you are 21 TIMES more
likely to be shot dead by a police officer than if you are a
white male.[/move]
In the video you will hear many truths. One that stood out for
me is the PROOF that has emerged recently, as told by Thom
Hartmann, that the Reagan Administration was pumping drugs into
black neighborhoods.
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Gary Webb was RIGHT! The TARGET of the Reagan Administration
was African Americans. In typical Predatory Crapitalist fashion,
Reagan and his war profiteering pals wanted to make money off of
blacks even as they got them to kill each other for drugs. >:(
SNIPPET:
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> The Nicaraguan Contra civilian leadership chose their base in
Miami in the 1980's, where the co caine cowboys were already
established and renowned during the 1970's for the violence that
is associated with the illegal co caine trade. Southern Air
Transport (S.A.T.), a ClA-affiliated freight airline operating
out of Miami has been implicated in drug-running, evidence of
which comes from many sources. Notably, in Congressional
testimony Wanda Palacio, an FBI informant, has stated that she
witnessed drugs being exchanged for guns on an S.A.T. plane in
Barranquila, Colombia.
>
> Corroborating this testimony is an Associated Press story of
Jan. 21, 1987, which states the October 1986 S.A.T. plane crash
in Nicaragua revealed flight logs indicating that the pilot,
Wallace Sawyer Jr., had been flying from Barranquila, Colombia
to Miami, Florida in early October 1985. Eugene Hasenfus, an Air
America veteran and sole survivor of that crash, filed suit
against White House National Security Council (NSC) aide Richard
Secord and S.A.T. for expenses and damages, claiming S.A.T. and
Secord were his employers. Secord in turn contends that Mr.
Hasenfus' real employer was Ronald Reagan and the actual chain
of command was Reagan-Poindexter-North-Secord. :o >:(
>
> Then there were the allegations coming from Costa Rica
regarding White House involvement in the drug trade. The Central
American country of Costa Rica lies on Nicaragua's Southern
border, which made Costa Rica strategically important during the
Contra insurgency in Nicaragua. In that time, the Northern
region of Costa Rica bordering with Nicaragua was the site of
extensive CIA and Contra activity. In the wake of the
Iran-Contra affair, White House NSC staff members Lt. Col.
Oliver North, John Poindexter, and Richard Secord were
banned-for-life from entering Costa Rica in 1989, after the
Costa Rican legislature implicated the NSC staff members in guns
and drug smuggling. Former Contra leader Eden Pastora has said
"I knew that much of what went through (CIA operative John
Hull's northern Costa Rica ranch's) airstrips was related to
narcotics trafficking" as part of a "Colombia-Costa Rica, Costa
Rica-Miami connection." (Co ckburn, p. 177) These White-House
NSC members, along with John Hull, were indicted in a Costa
Rican court as accessories to murder in the La Penca bombing and
assassination attempt on Eden Pastora, which resulted in the
death of an American journalist. North, Poindexter and Secord
were never extradicted or arraigned in Costa Rica.
>
> Evidence of White House premeditated involvement in drug
trafficking is provided by examining the unusual covert action
background of key Iran-Contra players, dating back to American
involvement in Laos. Air America - the CIA's Thailand-based
Vietnam-era airline - was notorious for its participation in
heroin trafficking as a part of funding and supporting the CIA's
secret war in Laos during the Vietnam war. This profound bit of
history has been the focus of much commentary by historians, and
has been confirmed by many sources. (Regarding the recent
controversial August 1990 comic movie, "Air America", former Air
America pilot Jack Smith spoke out on Entertainment Tonight,
substantiating the movie's essential truths.)
>
> Since controlling the Laotian opium fields determined who
would control Laos, the CIA put all of its support behind their
chosen drug lord, Vang Pao, and the amount of opiates that came
out of Laos tripled. As it turns out, Richard Secord (CIA
Special Operations Group Deputy Wing Commander in Laos), Lt.
Col. Oliver North, Richard Armitage, and John Singlaub were all
veterans of the secret war in Laos (Co ckburn). The presence of
several Laos secret-war veterans who emerged as key NSC players
in Iran-Contra exceeds the realm of mere coincidence. In the
October 1986 S.A.T. plane crash which yielded Eugene Hasenfus
and the U.S. Government embarrassment, an old Air America
operations manual was found. (Co ckburn p. 221)
>
> Public record documents that General Manuel Noriega was on the
CIA payroll in the early to mid 1970's, as well as the 1980's.
An important point mostly ignored in the mainstream press,
however, is the Congressional testimony by George Bush's own NSC
advisor, Donald Gregg, that George Bush (then Pres. Gerald
Ford's CIA Director) met with Noriega and other Panamanian
officials sometime in 1976. This meeting with Noriega took place
well after Noriega had been implicated in the intelligence
community as a drug trafficker in the DEA's June 1975 DeFeo
report. Meeting with a foreign official, CIA Director George
Bush would have been fully briefed on Noriega's dossier. Later,
Jimmy Carter's CIA director, Adm. Stansfield Turner, ended
payments to Noriega; however, Noriega's CIA pay checks resumed
when Reagan/Bush took office in l980. (1990 PBS Frontline on
Noriega)
>
> It is interesting to note at this point that George Bush was
the Drug Czar during his tenure as Vice President under Pres.
Ronald Reagan. In NSC memos discovered in the-Iran-Contra
investigation, it has been revealed that George Bush's NSC
advisor Donald Gregg was aware early on of Contra involvement in
the drug trade.
>
> Could ex-CIA chief George Bush, at that point Vice President
and Drug Czar, be unaware of such goings-on when his reporting
subordinate was quite aware of Contra involvement in the drug
trade?
>
> And the pattern continues: During the first two years of the
Bush presidency, William Bennett, Bush's first Drug Czar, was
criticized by members of Congress for his apparent indifference
to Federal judicial and legal loopholes which permitted U.S.
companies to export unusual volumes of co caine processing
chemicals to Latin American countries harboring co caine
production laboratories. Mr. Bennett had been an outspoken
proponent of escalating the war on drugs, and yet on this
important front of anti-drug policy, Mr. Bennett was apparently
negligent. (Rolling Stone, "Between the Lines", October -
November 1990)
>
> It's doubtful that the concurrence of the Contra war in
Nicaragua with the emergence of crack co caine were mere
coincidences. It has been long aknowledged that heroin's
prominence and availability during the Vietnam war was
contributed by the trafficking of opiates in Laos and Southeast
Asia. Sadly, covert wars and drug trafficking go hand in hand.
>
> Ex-CIA field officer John Stockwell has commented, "We cannot
forget the Senate Kerry Committee findings of co caine smuggling
on ClA/Contra aircraft, the DEA reports on the number of
prosecutions in which the CIA has intervened to block
prosecution of drug smugglers, the note that escaped Lt. Col.
Oliver North's shredder that $14 million of drug money had gone
to the Contras, or the CIA's 20-odd-year relationship with
Manuel Noriega." (Austin American Statesman, op-ed editorial)
Nor has this escaped the comment of ex-DEA agent Michael Levine:
"God knows how many secret elements are out there working under
the guise of the drug war. Oliver North was the latest example.
His operation was hip-deep in Contra drug smuggling. He was
banned from Costa Rica for his involvement with drug runners.
The DEA documented fifty tons of Contra coke that was being
routed into the U.S. by a Honduran connection. An agent bought
two kilos in Lubbock, Texas, and made the arrest. The CIA comes
quickly to the rescue. A closed hearing is held. Case
dismissed." (Esquire, March 1991, p 136)
>
> Leslie Co ckburn has documented that since drug trafficking
was facilitated via an unhindered CIA-Contra network
unencumbered by increased U.S. border interdiction efforts, the
effect was "... involvement of the CIA and the related White
House covert operations network in drenching America in co caine
and other narcotics ..." (Co ckburn, p.187) And since overall co
caine use declined in the '80's, it was the cheaper and
more-addictive Crack co caine that came into prominence. As the
shipments of South American marijuana declined as a result of
increased interdiction efforts, cheap co caine came to the fore
to replace marijuana as the drug of choice for drug users and
drug smugglers alike.
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Hand Out Machine Guns to the Poor in the Projects and watch them
Kill Each Other
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 3, 2014, 8:24 pm
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Watch it all. It starts a bit slow but gets quite informative
towards the end. ;D
But just like it happened in Germany, Fascism in the USA did NOT
stop with the targeting of a small minority. YOU and I are not
quite as much in the fascist police state crosshairs as the
blacks, but EVIL is always a growth industry...
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If you do nothing to address the murderous brutality against the
African Americans, it will be TOO LATE to COMPLAIN when the
POLICE STATE reaches YOU!
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 3, 2014, 8:42 pm
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Dallas Activists File Complaint Against Dallas Police For
Systemic Abuse[/move]
Organize! Dallas, Law, police brutality, Texas
By Candice Bernd, www.truth-out.org
December 3rd, 2014
Dallas resident Collette Flanagan holds up a photo of her son
(at link below), Clinton Allen, who was unarmed when he was shot
by Dallas Officer Clark Staller in March 2013, during a public
hearing on the impacts of police violence in Dallas, November 7,
2014. (Photo: Candice Bernd)
Dallas Communities Organizing for Change (DCOC), a grassroots,
Dallas-based police accountability group, has filed an
administrative complaint with the Department of Justice’s (DOJ)
Civil Rights Division alleging that the [b]Dallas Police
Department (DPD) has participated in a pattern and practice of
excessive use of force against African-Americans and Hispanics,
echoing a national trend.[/b] According to the complaint,
between July 2002 and July 2013, there were 185 police shootings
reported by the DPD, with 58 resulting in a fatality.
African-American and Hispanic fatalities accounted for 43, or 74
percent, of all lethal police shootings. Thirty-six of the 185
police shooting victims were unarmed.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 6, 2014, 5:57 pm
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Fri Dec 05, 2014 at 09:50 AM EST.
[move]ANIMATED
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It seems that everyone but Darren Wilson is responsible for the
death of Michael Brown. It’s Michael Brown’s fault,
black-on-black violence is at fault, it’s a culture of
disrespect and lawbreaking that’s at fault, take your pick.
Perhaps the best spew of logic came from Rudy Giuliani, who
essentially said, if you black people didn’t kill yourselves so
much we wouldn’t have to send so many white cops down there to
kill you as well.
Yes, crime in black communities is bad. Yes, white police
officers killing unarmed black people is bad. Are we not capable
of holding two thoughts in our collective head at the same time?
It sure seems that many people only talk of “black-on-black”
crime when they are defending a white police officer.
Now that another tragedy has happened in the blink of an eye and
the police officer who choked Eric Garner to death on camera was
not indicted (who you gonna’ believe, your lyin’ eyes or the
police union?), let’s hope the growing outrage continues to
spotlight police brutality and brings an end to these
all-too-frequent killings. Be sure to like, comment and share
this cartoon far and wide, or check out links behind the cartoon
on my site.
Now that the Missouri non-prosecutor has issued a sweeping
non-indictment of Darren Wilson, we can finally find Michael
Brown’s real killer!
Who Killed Michael Brown? It’s a real whodunit!
Was it the black-on-black crime in his neighborhood that forced
Brown to tackle a police officer’s bullet with his head?
No? Well it must’ve been the Cigarillos that pushed him into a
competent and level-headed police officer’s line of fire.
And if not the Cigarillos, it must’ve been his sheer size that
killed him!
Weighing in at six-foot-four, two-hundred and ninety-two pounds,
Brown terrified Officer Wilson, who was only six-foot-four,
two-hundred and ten pounds, (plus the additional weight of the
club, gun and police vehicle.)
Was the real killer . . . Hulk Hogan?
Had Officer Wilson not been so scared of the wrestling
superstar, he would not have confused an unarmed teen with a
world heavyweight wrestling champ in tights and a boa.
The real killer was most surely . . . a culture of violent rap
music, broken homes, sagging pants, marijuana socks, social
media, divorce, demonic weight gain, disrespect, hip hop, happy
meals, Obama and, sunspots.
And thanks to the innocent bystander with the gun, we have
plenty of leads into Who Killed Michael Brown!
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It’s a real whodunit! ;)
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 7, 2014, 2:25 pm
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"Seeing Ferguson Clearly: 12 Double Standards That Expose White
Supremacy" -- The doublethink of domination and victimhood is
central to the pathology of white supremacy in the U.S. It is
used to dupe and confuse us into believing that there is nuance
in brutality and justice in murder. >:(
SNIPPET 1:
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> “Black people are feared, and lies are told about our
propensity for violence, that we want to burn everything down,
we want to tear everything up, we want to shoot everybody but we
don’t do it. But historically, who are the ones that do it?
Groups like the Klan, groups like the Oath Keepers.”
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SNIPPET 2:
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> The word “Ferguson” has become synonymous with racism and
police brutality in the U.S. today, in the same way that the
name “Rodney King” did in 1992.
>
> And yet there remains a persistent and reactionary response
from some white Americans who vehemently view themselves as the
victims and black Americans as “violent thugs” who deserve the
treatment they receive from police and the criminal justice
system.
>
> The doublethink of domination and victimhood is central to the
pathology of white supremacy in the U.S. It is used to dupe and
confuse us into believing that there is nuance in brutality and
justice in murder.
>
> But what we really need is to see things in black and white.
Literally.
>
> Here are 12 double standards that prove white supremacy is
alive and well and hard at work in Ferguson:
>
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It's a three page, must read article ESPECIALLY if you have ANY
doubts about how it REALLY works in our racist, police state
country and have a SHRED of decency and honesty left in you:
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 9, 2014, 6:51 pm
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Agelbert Observation in regard to Libertarian hypocrisy:
The racist motive is the only explanation for why some
libertarians suddenly start defending the state, big-time, in
cases where black guys get killed by police, when in almost all
other contexts they are quite suspicious of state power.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
DIR By: AGelbert
Date: December 13, 2014, 4:08 pm
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Louisiana Plantation Opens as the First Museum Dedicated to the
History of American Slavery
by Crystal Shepeard
December 12, 2014
2:30 pm
Martha was one of 16 children. She didn’t grow up with her
siblings. Her mother was a slave whose children, fathered by 15
different men, were sold away, including Martha. She is one of
thousands of slave children to be memorialized at the Whitney
Plantation Museum in Louisiana.
The Whitney Plantation’s history began in 1752 when the land
located 35 miles outside of New Orleans, Louisiana was purchased
by a German immigrant. Ambroise Heidel made his fortune by
turning the property into an indigo plantation. His youngest
son, who had changed the spelling of the family name, would
switch the Habitation Haydel plantation cash crop to sugar in
the early 1800s. It would remain in the family until the late
1800s, when the property was sold after the Civil War. It would
later be renamed to the Whitney Plantation, after the new
wealthy owner’s youngest grandson.
This week, the Whitney Plantation opened its doors as the first
museum dedicated to the history of the slavery in America.
The numerous plantations in Louisiana and across the south are a
reminder of a dark time. Many have been restored and also been
turned into museums. The history told focuses on the white
owners that were part of the economic fabric of the region. The
architecture of the buildings represents the influence of the
countries they came from, modified to a uniquely American
experience. What is missing in all of these stories is one
important element: None of it would have happened without the
free labor of black slaves that built those houses and worked
the lands.
John Cummings is determined not to make the same mistake.
A retired lawyer and wealthy real estate owner, the Whitney
Plantation is one of Cummings’ 9,000 acres of real estate
holdings in the New Orleans area. His purchase of the antebellum
property was personal, wanting to preserve an important part of
Louisiana history. It was due to be razed by a petrochemical
company when he purchased it from them in 1998. The main house
is an architectural gem, a testament to the region’s history.
Cummings, however, has no intention of making the house the
center of the museum.
He wants everyone to remember who built that house.
The Haydel family was one of the largest slaveholders in the
region. On a household inventory from 1860, they noted 101
slaves, listed by name, gender and country of origin. Their
ages, skills and even their skin tone were detailed on the
report, which also noted two runaways that were presumed hiding.
For the past 15 years, Cummings has spent $7 million of his own
money trying to recreate the world those slaves lived in and,
most importantly, who they were.
The plantation is considered the most complete in the south. In
addition to the Greek and Spanish Creole styled house, the
property has the overseer’s house, a blacksmith’s shop, as well
as the oldest kitchen in Louisiana – all of which has been
restored. The murals, believed to be painted by Italian artist
Domenico Canova, also remain. Still, Cummings had to take some
latitude to achieve his mission. He has purchased mahogany
furniture, silver and other items from auction houses to
recreate the style of the original owners.
However, it’s not the owners Cummings wishes to memorialize.
Cummings admits that he, as a wealthy white man, may be looked
at suspiciously for trying to create this monument. However, he
insists that his intentions are sincere. He relied heavily on
the expertise of Ibrahima Seck, who is the academic director of
the Whitney Plantation Museum. His book, “Bouki Fait Gombo: A
History of the Slave Community of Habitation Haydel (Whitney
Plantation) Louisiana, 1750-1860,” details the history of the
slaves of the plantation. Originally from Senegal, he documents
the routes of the slaves from the countries of origin, as well
as many of the culinary and musical traditions that were part of
how they coped with the brutal life of the plantation slaves.
Cummings has purchased original slave houses from other
properties, as well as a shingled church used by the slaves.
Visitors can see a steel jail from 1868 used to hold slaves, as
well as 9 ½ feet wide sugar kettles, and rusted metal crosses
that are used as grave markers on the property. After a brief
tour of the main house, visitors are met with the sound of large
antique bells ringing, reminding them of who they are there to
remember.
It promises to be emotional and even uncomfortable.
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One memorial was done by Ohio artist Woodrow Nash. Sixty-three
ceramic heads of slaves killed rest on rods near a lagoon. The
German Coast uprising happened on January 8-10, 1811 in what is
now St. John and St. Charles parishes in Louisiana. It was the
largest uprising in American history, in which 66 slaves died
and another 33 were executed, escaped, or presumed dead.
Visitors are constantly reminded of the harsh world of the
slaves as they walk through the hot and humid grounds, complete
with the sounds of freight trains rumbling in the distance.
Transcribed oral histories are etched on the walls, just some of
the 4,000 stories of Louisiana slaves the staff has obtained.
Some of these stories have been recorded and are played
throughout the tour.
The Field of Fallen Angels is in an incongruously quiet
courtyard that contains a centerpiece of a bronze angel
breastfeeding a baby. The angel, bare breasted and surrounded by
rusty chains, sits in the center of a memorial with 2,200
hundred names etched in stone. They are the slave babies born in
St. John Parish that died before their third birthday. The slave
children are a central theme throughout the plantation, with
scores of life-sized ceramic sculptures of children sitting on
the steps of the slave quarters, standing in fields, or sitting
in the pews at church.
One of those children is Martha.
When recounting her story, Cummings notes how clergy
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that their purpose here on earth was to be good slaves to their
masters. In return, God would reward them by reuniting their
families in the afterlife. He pauses as he remembers Martha’s
mother dying brokenhearted at the loss of her 16
children.
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“I just hope those pastors kept their promises,” he says.
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Agelbert note: Slavery is NOT over in the USA. It's good to
remember the history but it's also important to recognize that
slavery in the world AND the USA HAS NOT gone away. It just has
better PR. :(
Cheap, Disposable People
•An average slave in the American South in 1850 cost the
equivalent of $40,000 in today’s money; today a slave costs an
average of $90.
•In 1850 it was difficult to capture a slave and then transport
them to the US. Today, millions of economically and socially
vulnerable people around the world are potential slaves.
This “supply” makes slaves today cheaper than they have ever
been. Since they are so cheap, slaves are today are not
considered a major investment worth maintaining. If slaves get
sick, are injured, outlive their usefulness, or become
troublesome to the slaveholder, they are dumped or killed. For
most slave holders, actually legally ‘owning’ the slave is an
inconvenience since they already exert total control over the
individuals labor and profits. Who needs a legal document that
could at some point be used against the slave holder?
Today the slave holder cares more about these high profits than
whether the holder and slave are of different ethnic
backgrounds; in New Slavery, profit trumps skin color. Finally,
new slavery is directly connected to the global economy. As in
the past, most slaves are forced to work in agriculture, mining,
and prostitution. From these sectors, their exploited labor
flows into the global economy, and into our lives.
In addition, there may be people held in slavery in your
community. Slavery happens in nearly every country in the world,
and the US and Europe are not immune. Research that Free the
Slaves conducted with the University of California, Berkeley
found documented cases of slavery and human trafficking in more
than 90 cities across the United States. To learn about the
warning signs of slavery and what you can do to combat slavery
in your community, click here
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Why is there slavery in the United States?
Trafficking victims are often tricked into slavery through
promises of work. Human traffickers
tend to prey on impoverished people who live in countries with
little access to education,
health care or jobs. When traffickers disguise themselves as
legitimate recruiters or
employment brokers and promise paying work, many people are
willing to sign on.
Parents desperately want to work so they can feed their hungry
families. Young people want
to work so they can pay for their schooling or that of their
younger brothers and sisters.
They are tricked into believing they will be paid for their
work.
The basic rule of this global traffic in slaves is that victims
flow from poorer countries to
richer countries. While it is true that most slaves in the US
are trafficked in from other
countries, US citizens are also forced into slavery around the
country. A recent study found
the citizens of more than 35 countries enslaved in the US, with
the greatest numbers
coming from China, Mexico, and Viet Nam.
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Re: Mechanisms of Prejudice: Hidden and Not Hidden
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The Australian Government has gone back to treating the natives
horribly. Other very important issues in regard to of the
corruption in the media and the government are also discussed by
John Pilger. >:(
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