• Maggoty@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    27
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    7 days ago

    I saw one on Tiktok today, who worked those jobs before immigrants?

    Slaves. Slaves worked those jobs. Then former slaves treated like slaves. Then immigrants. Literally right into the 1940s and then Mexican labor was imported.

    • Wes4Humanity@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      11
      ·
      7 days ago

      As the former slaves’ descendants were increasingly shoehorned into the new industrial prison complex