@FinalGirl giving a congratulations card to a woman who just got her bachelor's in geology "Girl, are you a pressurized, superheated, carbonated plume of molten rock? Because you really rose to the occasion!"
-Birth rates were low on sugarcane plantations. High mortality, intense working conditions, and gender imbalance also meant low fertility and birth rates.� -There was high cultural retention (this is important). Because most enslaved people were coming directly from
Africa, they had stronger, more proximate ties to their culture and language.
The brutal systems that the United States later employed were borrowed and adapted from the capitalist machine that was sugar plantations. Case in point: the United States
@deborahh@mayintoronto couldn't be! They've sworn up and down that schools aren't vectors of major spread!
Mind you, they invested almost nothing in air filtration. And, almost no students mask anymore. And social distancing was always useless as it was airborne despite what the CDC claimed for years. Oh, and the vaccines have had falling rates of adoption when you can even get them anymore. And everyone's sick all the time in school.
COVID levels in every region of the US spiked up to either "high" or "very high" at least three times in the past year, according to CDC wastewater data.
For kicks, check out the entire data set to see it spiking constantly for the last 4-5 years. Across multiple presidential admins, I might add. Bipartisanship!
The joke here is that Salesforce doesn't hire Latinos, so it's safe to make a joke about being kidnapped. Because ICE doesn't kidnap white people. Get it? Hahaha /s
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