The High Price of Sugar

They give us a pair of linen drawers for our whole garment twice a year. When we work at the sugar canes, and the mill snatches hold of a finger, they cut off the hand; and when we attempt to run away, they cut off the leg; both cases have happened to me. This is the price at which you eat sugar in Europe. Yet when my mother sold me for ten patagons on the coast of Guinea, she said to me: ‘My dear child, bless our fetiches, adore them for ever; they will make thee live happily; thou hast the honor of being the slave of our lords, the whites, which is making the fortune of thy father and mother.

I'm fighting down the urge to start off like the late famous radio show:

"You know what makes me sick..."

It's a sad day when we put human beings through this so we can have trivial luxuries like sugar, or more recently, diamonds. One of my favorite quotes is from the famed historian George Santayana: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it." The question is, after everything we have done, automobiles, aircraft, the harnessing of electricity, has humanity really progressed beyond enslaving other human beings in order to produce luxuries so that we can live nice, comfortable lives? Our problem is that we have progressed in the physical world, but our mindsets have yet to leave the primeval state.

~Cody Martin

P.S. I commented on Hunter Joplin's

P.P.S. somehow I was thinking of this song when I wrote this, just watch the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sgycukafqQ&ob=av2e