Joel Landy covers Phil Ochs "Bracero" on Checkerboard Kids

[chexwex123]

holy fake tits this is my computer teacher hahahhahahahhahahah

[ikol0ikol1]

LMAO HE'S MY TEACHER

[superhoga]

Dude, can you nasal? How about flat?

Much as I love Phil Ochs, this song misses the point. The Bracero program was the result of the extreme labor shortage in the fields because of the Japanese Internment during WW2. Guess what, the Mexicans came of their own accord because the opportunity was better than what they had in Mexico. Regardless of how we feel about their pay or the conditions, it isn't for us to comment when the workers of their own free will individually came for a given wage.

[zaitesushion]

@superhoga Regardless of why the workers came over, the fact remains that they were criminally exploited, in a way that the bosses never would have dared to do with white/American workers. You're right that someone is missing the point, but it isn't Phil Ochs.

[superhoga]

@zaitesushion

Do you know anything about this specific situation or do you just reflexively cry exploitation when you see someone do a job you wouldn't do for a wage you wouldn't accept? Myopia much? No, they didn't stay in the Beverley Wilshire or become overnight millionaires, but how can you claim exploitation - criminal or otherwise - when someone offers a job for a certain wage and people desire it so much that they leave their families, land and country to come take it?

[superhoga]

@zaitesushion

The only criminal exploitation in the situation is the ethnic cleansing committed by the US govt against the Japanese descended people into slave labor camps. The exploitation is the then-socialist Mexican govt that made jobs and food so scarce that people were willing to accept low pay and difficult labor. Too bad you weren't there at the time to tell all those people what the just price for their labor was. Apparently you know better than the workers, the farmers and the market.

[barry2311]

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[iKillsZ]

oo shit hes mine too!

[bkzdom]

this is my computer teacher...

[hassanradwan]

Excellent cover!

[CanterburyCat]

ty.