Do they say y'all down your way too?
Over the years I've known several people who've been trafficked, it's an incredibly fucked up situation. Known a few traffickers too, one of whom managed to meet a rather violent and unlamented end. Pretty sure one of the others is why people kept doing drive-by shootings outside my old house.
Got a track for ya, Warren Zevon has long been one of my favorite artists and Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner pretty well stays on my playlist. It's my go to tune for when things are well and truly fucked and you've still got to do it anyway, good for getting your head in the right place for that.
Some say it y'all here, depends what part of the country one is in, I tend to say it now and then because I picked up the habit when spending time with people who said it a lot back in the day. It's a good word.
Human trafficking is a massive issue and I think it's good for some light to be cast on it, the song I liked is just one way to do so, a good way. The reality is that most folks stick their heads in the sand and don't want to see or acknowledge that's it's there, but it clearly is. It's pretty disgusting really, how people ignore that there's more humans in slavery now than at any other time in history.
Thanks for the tracks, the ones you share are always worth a listen.
Ah, gotcha, it's definitely a regional thing here, was surprised to see it coming from your side of the equator.
I think the reality is that most folks have their heads in the sand about a great many things, but that's definitely one of them. Here sex trafficking gets all the attention and most of the other flavors of it get even more overlooked. Are you familiar with the scam slavery operation in Myanmar/Burma? Every year for Kentucky Derby there's always a huge influx of people being trafficked just for the horse race crowd. There's usually a federal task force after them but it never seems to dent the next years festivities. It's truly is disgusting, made even more so by it's long history.
My pleasure!
Yeah, I'd heard about the scam thing you mention,
don'tdidn't really know the details though. There's so many things wrong with humanity and I'll be honest and say I wonder if it's reversible...I think not. It's amazing what good things a person can do for and to another...and disgusting what bad things the same people can do to each other. shameful.