‘Sure, the Panama Canal was constructed at a pricey worth — paid in Black lives’
Joan Flores-Villalobos on the Los Angeles Occasions
The “histories for probably the most half ignore that the good majority of the employees” on the Panama Canal “have been Black migrants from the Caribbean,” says Joan Flores-Villalobos. Somewhat than a “shining beacon of American progress, the canal development was if something one of the vital obvious examples of Jim Crow exported overseas.” The “development additionally price Panama many years of sovereignty.” President Donald Trump “needs to disregard America’s inconvenient legacy of Jim Crow and colonialism.”
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