Alex Proimos from Sydney, Australia, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Indentured Servitude

I wrote these thoughts down in 2012. I had just experienced an act of racism carried out verbally to a laborer (Tomas) working for another contractor, both of us born in America and of Latin descent, one of us labeled "illegal" one of us not. The verbal remark used was "wetback” which is a derogatory term for immigrant South American laborers, legal or not. That day, I lost a client because I stepped in and made it clear, Not on my watch. That same…