Think someone might want to rethink her choice of words....
On Monday, August 2, 2010, Ron Wilkins, who was a black Civil Rights activist and organizer in the ’70s and is now a professor specializing in African-American history, published an incendiary article in the magazine CounterPunch in which he describes how he infiltrated the Sherrods’ “New Communities” farm commune in 1974 and discovered horrifying circumstances where black farm workers labored in near-slavery conditions, often being paid as little as 67¢ per hour (far under the minimum wage at the time) and facing intolerable conditions:
and back in 1974... you want to talk about getting hit from the left as well?
But if these radical bona fides are not enough to convince you that this isn’t just a conservative hit-piece concocted out of thin air, Wilkins’ allegations (and more) are confirmed by a news story published at the time in the far-far-far-left-leaning United Farm Workers’ newspaper El Malcriado on September 28, 1974.
You think someone's wishing she could go hide on her farm right about now?
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