Category Archive: exploitation

Mar 10

White Man Carries His New Burden in #Kony Tote Bag

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If you’re online, you’ve probably heard about this Kony character and the campaign by Invisible Children to stop him. Their campaign is obnoxious. At best, it’s an ineffective and dangerous product of white privilege. At worst, its little more than a cynical profit grab that panders to racism. Here’s a little known fact about Africa: It doesn’t need …

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Aug 27

Baseball Dominican Republic

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pic nicked from here “The D.R. is baseball’s puppy mill. The buscones develop and sometimes feed and house these teenage players, with the intent of selling them to the highest bidder, a major league team willing to fork over thousands, if not millions, of dollars to secure a prospect. As a reward for their work, …

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