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"Slaves fight back".... Where's Jesse Jackson on this one?

DrLeftover

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The fight against slavery in Brazil

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only since 1995 has Brazil been fighting the problem of modern slavery within its borders with genuine consequences for transgressors.

The key decision that year was to form a series of federal mobile inspection units under the control of the Ministry of Labor, capable of undertaking raids on businesses across Brazil when reports of the use of slave labor were received. In the first five years, 2,303 slaves were rescued, rising to about 5,000 a year by 2009.

The introduction of the units came 25 years after a bishop in the Amazon, Pedro Casaldáliga, began to campaign against modern slavery during Brazil’s dictatorship. Before then, there was little recognition of the continued existence of slave labor after its official abolition in 1888.

“Brazil abolished slavery more than a century ago but did not change its worker exploitation model,” said Luiz Camargo, the country’s chief labor prosecutor.

“We only changed the people who are exploited. Back in the 18th or 19th century, you had only black slaves, and today you have slaves of all colors,” he said.


http://projects.aljazeera.com/2015/07/slavery-brazil/slaves-fight-back.html
 
That's easy, Doc...there's no money to be fleeced from them. :lol:
 
It is only bad when evil whitey did it back in 1860. And it is still only the evil whitey of today who is evil that should pay for the sins of the past. Otherwise these new generation of radical racist blacks would be screaming at the top of every hill in America about the women that have been enslaved in the middle east for thousands of years. You would think they would be the biggest organizers in the world for human rights violations actually happening instead of the silly whining they do here in America.
 
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