ICE Raids in Mississippi’s Chicken Country Create Opportunity for Black Residents

[#1 pick]

Fighting illegal Mexicans for scraps. These businesses really got us like crabs in a bucket. Poor people pulling down poor people while the rich prosper at historic levels.

The real issue here.


I have zero issues if these Black folks have sympathy for Hispanics. That's simply human nature. The lack of human nature from the cac is the issue.

 

[Nobu]

Based on the article it doesn't sound like there is a labor pool. You're ignorantly choosing to ignore that.

You're extrapolating that from anecdotes of 2 people quitting, but ignore that there was so much demand for the jobs, that even people who were already employed quit their jobs to take these new higher paying ones.

The article doesn't say there is a shortage of African American applicants, it says the opposite.

Marquese Parks, who works for a staffing agency that helped Koch Foods find new employees after the raids, said applicants included “a lot of African-American, a lot of white, Caucasian. Latinos, not so much.”

 

[Devilinurear]

if there is a choice between going after a minority for something vs going after a white business owner who do you think folks are going to go after?

Until these businesses start getting punished I refuse to believe any of this is serious. In the grand scale these raids are accomplishing very little.

Truth

 

[BigMoneyGrip]

30k a year is a living wage in Mississippi.. thats how trash that state is

 

[MaxPain]

Just knocked out an illegal immigrant an hour ago

 

[Dameon Farrow]

30k a year is a living wage in Mississippi.. thats how trash that state is

If they didn't have those casinos on the Gulf Coast it would be a wasteland.

The casinos are nice. But they keep that whole state afloat.

 

[FaTaL]

i couldnt imagine killing chickens and gutting them all day long

 

[96Blue]

Because....
We are fighting against illegal immigrants
For low wage jobs.

I don't understand your cognitive dissonance

So you'd rather Black people turn down these jobs is what you're saying?

 

[Savvir]

Just knocked out an illegal immigrant an hour ago

And got on the internet to brag about it?

You new nikkas are something else.

 

[bourgeoisie tall freak]

i couldnt imagine killing chickens and gutting them all day long

shyts hazardous just being near it breh, it aint the same as when it was a legit family farm back in the day, its industrial. you hate to see it come down to brehs being a biggot over who gets to do it in their community especially considering they put it in that community because they know its poison

Environmental racism:
The term was coined by Benjamin Chavis, previous executive director of the United Church of Christ (UCC) Commission for Racial Justice, addressing hazardous PCB waste in Warren County, North Carolina. Chavis defined the term as

racial discrimination in environmental policy making, the enforcement of regulations and laws, the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste facilities, the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in our communities, and the history of excluding people of color from leadership of the ecology movements.​

In the United States, correlation between the sites of hazardous waste facilities and minority communities was publicly addressed in the 1983 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report in response to the protests in Warren County, NC.[28] Minority communities do not have the financial means, resources, and political representation to oppose hazardous waste sites.[29] They also may depend on the economic opportunities the site brings and are reluctant to oppose its location at the risk of their health.[30] Additionally, controversial projects are less likely to be sited in non-minority areas that are expected to pursue collective action and succeed in opposing the siting of hazardous waste sites and sewage treatment facilities in their area.[31][32]

Environmental racism - Wikipedia​

#aintnosuchthingashalfwaymilitant

 

[Astroslik]

shyts hazardous just being near it breh, it aint the same as when it was a legit family farm back in the day, its industrial. you hate to see it come down to brehs being a biggot over who gets to do it in their community

Environmental racism:
The term was coined by Benjamin Chavis, previous executive director of the United Church of Christ (UCC) Commission for Racial Justice, addressing hazardous PCB waste in Warren County, North Carolina. Chavis defined the term as

racial discrimination in environmental policy making, the enforcement of regulations and laws, the deliberate targeting of communities of color for toxic waste facilities, the official sanctioning of the life-threatening presence of poisons and pollutants in our communities, and the history of excluding people of color from leadership of the ecology movements.​

In the United States, correlation between the sites of hazardous waste facilities and minority communities was publicly addressed in the 1983 U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) report in response to the protests in Warren County, NC.[28] Minority communities do not have the financial means, resources, and political representation to oppose hazardous waste sites.[29] They also may depend on the economic opportunities the site brings and are reluctant to oppose its location at the risk of their health.[30] Additionally, controversial projects are less likely to be sited in non-minority areas that are expected to pursue collective action and succeed in opposing the siting of hazardous waste sites and sewage treatment facilities in their area.[31][32]

Environmental racism - Wikipedia​

#aintnosuchthingashalfwaymilitant

you just debunked your entire argument with that wiki link

 

[Hiphoplives4eva]

Do you people not realize over 50% of Americans make less than 30K a year? This is a premium job now in Trump's America.

 

[MaxPain]

And got on the internet to brag about it?

You new nikkas are something else.

Yeah why not

 

[Savvir]

So you'd rather Black people turn down these jobs is what you're saying?

I'm saying we are preoccupied with scraps when rich white men are prospering at historic levels.

If that sentence translates to "blacks should give up low wage jobs to illegals" then capitalist/right wing propoganda has taken a toll on your critical thinking ability.

 

[Nobu]

I'm saying we are preoccupied with scraps when rich white men are prospering at historic levels.

This is really tone deaf. Low income people are obviously going to be preoccupied with getting the jobs you call "scraps" over tearing down capitalism or taking on the corporations. It's silly to expect people with very little money and opportunity to focus on defeating corporations and billionaires.

What specifically should they be focused on over finding a job to feed themselves?