And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Sunday, July 18, 2021
Dorothea Lange, Young North Carolinian in old Ford. He does not farm. ‘Works for wages.’ At Tuck’s filling station. Person County, N.C., July 1939.
No pussy's in that pik, no gender questions neither. They are men, capable of continuous hard work under grueling conditions, for as long as it takes, and no complaining. Look around the country now. What happened to us?
Hard times creates hard people and Dorothea chronicled some hard people's lives. Today's snowflake generation's photos should only be published in a "Socialism for Dummies" handbook.
I think that it was a few years ago on Ol' Remus' web site that I saw several photos of farm workers in California in the late 1930s. Interestingly, every last one of them was white.
it was when illegal aliens began sneaking across the border that farmers started replacing the white workers with Hispanics. Everything changed. Whites wouldn't work for the slave wages that Hispanics were happy to get.
Fun Fact: 10% of the cost of the vegetables you eat actually represent the labor cost. The rest of the cost represents supply chain expense and profit. If farm labor wages were doubled, you probably wouldn't notice it much.
The looks on those faces. I know those people; many were and are my relatives.
ReplyDeleteBless them all.
No pussy's in that pik, no gender questions neither. They are men, capable of continuous hard work under grueling conditions, for as long as it takes, and no complaining. Look around the country now. What happened to us?
ReplyDeleteWorks for wages. And from the look of him, he earns every penny.
ReplyDeleteHard times creates hard people and Dorothea chronicled some hard people's lives. Today's snowflake generation's photos should only be published in a "Socialism for Dummies" handbook.
ReplyDeleteIt'd almost have to be entirely in photographs given the sorry state of basic education these days.
Delete1939, gearing up for war and slowly restarting the economy & the jobs. He's already left the farm...
ReplyDeleteUnselfconcious resolve.
ReplyDeleteHe will soon have a job, that includes a free trip to Europe, or the Pacific, sailing on the ships of The Gray Funnel Line
ReplyDeleteI think that it was a few years ago on Ol' Remus' web site that I saw several photos of farm workers in California in the late 1930s. Interestingly, every last one of them was white.
ReplyDeleteit was when illegal aliens began sneaking across the border that farmers started replacing the white workers with Hispanics. Everything changed. Whites wouldn't work for the slave wages that Hispanics were happy to get.
Fun Fact: 10% of the cost of the vegetables you eat actually represent the labor cost. The rest of the cost represents supply chain expense and profit. If farm labor wages were doubled, you probably wouldn't notice it much.
You can find Ole Remus here, not all the links work though.
ReplyDeletehttps://web.archive.org/web/20110101000000*/http://woodpilereport.com/