SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign
My column looks beyond the obsequious and superficial headlines about First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign — and shows you which left-wing forces are driving her aggressive public policy initiative (so aggressive, as I noted the other day, that she paraded her poor daughters’ body mass index in public for the cause).
Remember: Big Government programs “for the children” are never about the children.
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SEIU fatcats behind First Lady’s anti-obesity campaign
by Michelle Malkin
Creators Syndicate
Copyright 2010
Behind every seemingly good deed in the Obama White House, there’s a deep-pocketed, left-wing special interest. Take First Lady Michelle Obama’s crusade against childhood obesity. Who really benefits from the ostensible push for improved nutrition in the schools? Think purple – as in the purple-shirted army of the Service Employees International Union. Big Labor bigwigs don’t care about slimming your kids’ waistlines. They care about beefing up their membership rolls and fattening their coffers.
Mrs. Obama earned a State of the Union Address shout-out from her hubby for taking on the weighty public policy issue of students’ physical fitness. The East Wing is now in full campaign mode – leaning on the nation’s mayors, traveling with the Surgeon General, and meeting with Congress and cabinet members to reauthorize the Lyndon Johnson-era Child Nutrition Act, which provides government-subsidized meals to more than 30 million children. It’s part of the Obama administration’s self-proclaimed “cradle-to-career” agenda for America’s youth.
For decades, this Great Society relic has been criticized by school administrators for outgrowing its initial conception. The program was originally created to use up post-World War II food surpluses. In the late 1970s, New York principal Lewis Lyman skewered it as a federal “boondoggle” in a seminal essay for the education journal, Phi Delta Kappan. But Democrats demagogued the GOP’s responsible attempts at financial reform during the Clinton years as “starving the children.” While spending on youth nutrition and wellness have ballooned, so have the kids. Nearly one-third of U.S. children are now overweight or obese. The feds spend $15 billion a year on nutrition in schools; the White House wants at least a $1 billion increase this coming fiscal year.
The well-intended program to feed poor kids has morphed into an untouchable universal entitlement with a powerful school lunch lobbying coalition of Department of Agriculture bureaucrats, food-service industry executives, and union bosses. Enter the SEIU. Headed up by the White House’s most frequent visitor, Andy Stern, the powerful labor organization representing government and private service employees has an insatiable appetite for power and growth. Working alongside the First Lady, the SEIU unveiled a major ad campaign this week demanding reauthorizing and funding increases in the Child Nutrition Act.
What’s in it for Big Labor? SEIU Executive Vice President Mitch Ackerman explains: “A more robust expansion of school lunch, breakfast, summer feeding, child care and WIC [the federal Women, Infants, and Children nutrition program] is critical to reducing hunger, ending childhood obesity, and providing fair wages and healthcare for front line food service workers (emphasis added).” There are 400,000 workers who prepare and serve lunch to American schoolchildren. SEIU represents tens of thousands of those workers and is trying to unionize many more. “More robust expansion” of the federal school lunch law means a mandate for higher wages, increased benefits, and government-guaranteed health insurance coverage (the more luxurious the better now that SEIU has negotiated its Cadillac Tax exemption from the Democrats’ health care takeover bill).
The SEIU’s front group, “Campaign for Quality Services,” is clamoring for “the right to sick days and training” for school food-services workers. Never ones to let a crisis go unexploited, SEIU sent its members to lobby in front of Chicago public schools last year and scare parents into supporting their labor agenda. They accused the school system of “putting our kids at risk” during flu season by resisting the SEIU’s sick day coverage demands. “Without sick days, I can’t take a day off, so I have to bring germs to school,” an SEIU janitor lamented.
Along the same lines, they are casting food-services workers as indispensable saviors. The union has rallied behind p.r. efforts casting them as superheroes “serving justice, and serving lunch.” Opposing the union means opposing children’s health. SEIU propaganda features New Jersey school cafeteria workers like Leslie Williams of Orange, N.J. lamenting: “I love my work, but it’s getting harder to prepare nutritious meals on the low budget we’re working with…It breaks my heart to see a child who’s hungry. As I see it, part of my job is to make sure the kids are well-fed.”
Actually, that’s the primary job of parents. Mom? Dad? Remember them? But the more responsibility we demand of parents, the less power and influence SEIU bosses are able to grab. Unionized school dietician and nutrition jobs are booming. And in addition to school breakfast and lunch, the SEIU is now pushing subsidized dinner plans and summer food service to create a “stronger nutrition safety net.” Translation: Perpetual employment for big government and its public employee union au pairs.
Cede the children, feed the state.
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Remember:
The issue is never the issue.
The issue is control.
I see a Fast-Food Franchise takeover in the future. MacDonalds is too big to fail!
So give him a Snickers and a nice cup of STFU!
Well, mo if your hubby wasn’t tanking businesses in this country, maybe parents could find a job and FEED the kids themselves!
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The more I see that photo of MO with the sweet potato, the more I think it was faked. I’ve never seen a sweet potato grow that large in a backyard garden. My family used to raise sweet potatoes in fertilized fields with good topsoil that received direct sunlight from sunrise to sunset. Even with all that, the size of our average potatoes were smaller than the one she is holding. I’d be willing to bet big money that the potato was raised elsewhere and put in the ground for this lovely photo op.
BTW, Obama is on the campaign again today and is once again whining extensively about the problems HE inherited.
“Sometimes none of the buttons we press get a reaction”. Is he admitting that his programs aren’t working?
I’m waiting for him to say “The buck stops here…. because here is where George Bush was when he cursed the nation with all of these problems.”
It’s all one big “don’t blame me but I beg you to help me”.
Pretty much the same speech he gave yesterday in Nashua.
This whole “free or low cost meal” program is a crock and should be eliminated. Mom: get up and cook your kid a bowl of instant oatmeal and give him a bologna sandwhich and an apple for lunch. “Problem” solved.
Just wanted to thank you all for feeding my kids.
Yeah, what a shame.
But as we all know, it could have been a lot worse. Right?
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Hey, keep going. How about dinner? A nice warm bed is critical, too, so why don’t we warehouse our kids in dorms? Let’s make sure their ‘off’ time is well spent, too, with the mandatory ‘volunteer’ service MichelleO wants, and some non-contact, non-competitive ‘sports’ (so nobody’s self esteem is harmed). Why don’t we just abdicate all responsibility for raising our kids to the State? It does a better job at everything, doesn’t it?
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Best argument I’ve read on his subject in years. Before taking a personal leave of absence to seek other career options to teaching (before I get too old to try my hand at something else), I taught school for seventeen years and have witnessed the wholesale waste and abuse that permeates many school district feeding and lunch programs. You laid out the facts and arguments accurately and succinctly, MM – hats off!
Please notice that her gloves are “fresh off the shelf” clean.
There isn’t a single thing about this bunch that is not staged.
Yeah, because she just bought the gloves and/or they were just washed. Nothing gets by you john doe
Is it just me or has anyone else noticed what people are actually allowed to buy with their “food debit cards” – potato chips; soda pop; cakes; snack food – of course their kid’s are fat! First thing that needs to be done is to stop the food stamp program and allow only what persons who get WIC receive. Not only would it save money (sorry big brand manufacturers) – but it also would help eliminate these “fat food” items from the children’s diet! WIC and food stamps are accepted at most farmer’s markets – create and enforce guidelines that only nutritional food can be purchased with these taxpayer funded “food programs”.
Thomas,
She’s wearing an outfit with a belt, perfectly clean gloves and holding an abnormally large sweet potato without a speck of dirt on it.
Grain of salt, my friend.
Now you’d better get to the bank and transfer that money before the Nigerian prince changes his mind.
So naturally more benefits for the lunch lady is going to result in better meals for the kids. Serving lunch to kids takes a vast amount of skill and training so it’s not like we can just drag anyone off the street to have them scoop slop onto plastic trays.
I grew up with two working parents, and we managed a bowl of oatmeal in the morning and a pbj and maybe a few potato chips on special occassions for lunch. None of us were obese until we were grown (which is an entirely self inflicted condition). But then again, we didn’t pend all our free time in front of the TV either.
We did get “hot lunch” every year on Thanksgiving week.
I have an idea, instead of pumping more money into free food, let’s put it into phys ed.
A city woman, with the help of her two city children, should be able to grow such vegetables the very first try. Much larger produce than can be found in stores is the norm. Her clothes will not get soiled or unduly worn, so she should wear something fancy and fashionable.
BMI is a very inaccurate gauge of obesity.
Exactly.
From Saul Alinsky’s playbook, I believe.
Not to mention repeated bending while wearing a belt so wide the buckle has “WWE” on it.
And where are the root fiber “hairs” that jut out from the sides of fresh-dug sweet potatoes? Very conscientious of her to pluck them off before the camera got a shot of them, making the potato not appear to its best advantage. In Obama World, everything must look perfect!
This is quite true. Years ago, I had a young PFC in my radio section that the Platoon Sergeant had an intense dislike for. I don’t know why he hated this guy so much.
The young man was a body builder and the BMI was one of the tools they used against him. He was heavy for his height. The fact that it was muscle didn’t matter. The fact that he could lift a car didn’t matter. Scumbags.
This summer in CA, the feds provided free school lunches at schools where there were no classes! No ID was required for all the takers. Just free food.
Creating the permanent majority. Hugo Chavez would be proud.
LMAO!! This made my day!
When my kids were in school, we had parent volunteers who served the lunches. Those who weren’t working outside the home took turns serving at the school as lunch servers and room mothers. All of us were from the neighborhood and we worked in the neighborhood school. I had a job, but managed to find time to help at the school too! The kids knew us and we took care of them. It takes a family AND a neighborhood to raise kids. But not the federal government, so they need to get the hell out of my neighborhood!! Oh, and we worked for FREE! You know, volunteerism used to be the norm… without the POTUS telling us to do it!
Don’t believe a word of it. To the lefties, one must have first person experience on any matter to know about anything. Simply studying the subject is insufficient. So they must always inject anecdotes. They are usually irrelevant or false. Such as BO reading letters from people everyday who have hardships in whatever area he wants Big Government to intrude. Simply hogwash.
The Obama’s children are not fat. Normal parents would be content with that.
If you haven’t attended a lunch with your child at a local school, you should – even if you have to take the time from work to do so. It will open your eyes to the tons of food thrown away by students. Granted, the food was borderline, the time allotted to eat was very short, but the kids seemed to want to get out of there and visit with their friends.
Why, this sounds every bit as evil as the Boy Scout who cleaned up the park the union guys were supposed to clean.
Barry says we need to volunteer for community service, but do NOT do any community service. It’ll cost somebody their healthcare and pension. What’s a Community Organizer to do?
Exactly what kind of training do they need to scoop food onto a plate?
As a person who makes good nutrition and exercise a high priority, I cannot ABIDE these people. Look at some of what the Child Nutrition Act includes:
$85 million to improve access to school lunch programs, summer
$25 million to purchase equiptment for school lunch programs
$25 million to help kids enroll in school lunch programs
In the link above to the Child Nutrition Act there is no definition on what constitutes good nutrition. And the topic of exercise is given very little mention. Perhaps its because exercise is not facilitated by union workers, yet.
This is essentially the same as saying that Halliburton contributed to George W. Bush and other Republicans. The Iraq war benefited Halliburton. Therefore, George W. Bush decided to overthrow Saddam Hussein to benefit Halliburton.
Other open questions: why do healthy lunches generate more revenue for the SEIU than unhealthy lunches? Is it not true that denying sick leave to school employees will result in those employees going to work when they’re sick and infecting kids?
IS THERE ANY THING IN THIS COUNTRY THAT WHITE MIDDLE CLASS WORKING AMERICANS ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, AND HENCE RESPONSIBLE FOR PAYING TO FIX. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR GIRLS WHO CAN’T KEEP THEIR KNEES TOGETHER, DESPITE DECADES OF SEX ED AND ON DEMAND ABORTION. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE PROGENY OF THESE GIRLS TO FEED AND CLOTH AND EDUCATE. WE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR THESE PROGENY WHEN THEY DROP OUT OF SCHOOL AND INTO PRISON. AND WE SEEM TO BE RESPONSIBLE FOR THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY AFTER THEY SPEND A LIFETIME ON THE GUBMINT DOLE NEVER PRODUCING A DIME FOR THE SOCIETY. THEN THEY DIE, AND WE HAVE TO BURY THEIR TIRED (_!_).
SO MY QUESTION IS HAS OBAMA AND WIFE DECIDED THE EASIEST WAY TO GET REPARATIONS FOR SLAVERY IS JUST TO INCREASE THE GUBMINT PROGRAMS (STIMULUSAPALOOZA) UNTIL THE OBAMAS FEEL THEY HAVE ACHIEVED ADEQUATE REPARATIONS.
You’ve obviously never been a victim of compartment spillover or you wouldn’t be asking that.
Apple crisp and peas do not make a good combination. Nor do pudding and mashed potatoes. The list goes on.
If only my lunch lady had been a union employee. At least then I’d know she was getting benefits and a pension instead of just being careless for nothing.
Everyone will be fine as long as everyone remembers to blow their noses on their sleeves, right Kathleen Sibelius? That’s your left wing government at work for you.
THat picture of MichelleO holding a Liberal in the larval stage is scary. If we can just find the hive before we’re overrun!
That pretty much sums it up.
The question asked in the previous thread mentioned was whether these people have ATO or PTO and the days are just not called “sick days”.
I’d also submit that the overwhelming percentage of this campaign is not about sick time or healthy lunches.
How many school employees don’t have sick time or the equivalent? Exactly how are today’s lunches unhealthy?
This is the non-profit that my daughter works for. She loves it, and feels it is really doing good things.
http://www.sajaifoundation.org/aboutus.html
I wonder why you mentioned “white.” Oh that’s right you’re a racist. Is anyone else out there going to denounce this piece of crap?
O.K. I will. Your post is a piece of crap.
Actually that’s racial, not racist.
Have you ever eaten what passes for a “healthy” lunch in today’s schools? They’re disgusting prefab concoctions of pressed soy (usually) saturated in fat and garlic.
You’re buying the union hype: all of a district’s employees (certified and classified) get a set number of paid sick days – a benefit acquired more often than not, without SEIU/union representation!
The only kids who got the “free” breakfasts and lunches at the schools I attended were the children of people who knew enough about the system to work it. There were no truly poor people at my school. Working class, maybe, but not totally impoverished. Nobody really checks that sort of thing.
It really cheeses me off that the schools are being set up more and more as substitute parents. The state is stealing your children.
Actually that’s racist. White middle class Americans are no more burdened than black middle class Americans. Read the link I originally provided and take a stand against bigots like cheapseat. Unless you agree with him.
That doesn’t make sense. Every war this country has fought has benefited our industries, and why shouldn’t they? Are you saying we should outsource supports because an administration may have the appearance of a former relationship or friendship with a firm or entire industry? I mean, if that’s your standard then no American company would be able to compete for war related contracts again.
The left can’t make an argument unless someone (other than them) is a racist.
Were you born without a brain? That’s exactly the point I was making regarding MM’s drivel.
Halliburton was losing money on its operations in Iraq and put the business up for sale. No one bid a single dollar.
The singles biggest (and fattest) profiteer on Iraq was Michael Moore.
Speaking of SEIU, the Dems and the union are pushing again for unionizing any child care provider that accepts low-income subsidized child care clients.
If the state (Washington State that is) subsidizies your child care then your provider will be required to be a union employee or would have to pay at least a 2% fee.
So say you are a child care center and you have 20 kids you care for. If 1 child gets state subsidies and the other 19 do not your child care center would be required to either join the union or pay negotiatiating fees.
Many child care centers have already said that they will just stop accepting any children that recieve a subsidy before they would have the union forced on them in such a way.
Red State Skeptic said:
Now you have a talking point you can go back to Huffy Puffy and the Daily Kook with. Frankly, All I have to do is listen to Louis Farrakan, Rev. Al, Jesse, Shabazz,and who can forget Little Ceasar himself’s words.And yes – It is all about White America and how White America is at fault fault. And frankly, it is redistribution of wealth a la Van Jones. And yes – it is all Whiteys fault.
Ok so how exactly does the war in Iraq and the contracts that occured equivicate to the same type of situation that the unions have with Democrats? In one case, Iraq, you have a uniques situation that requires a unique response (i.e. the use of contractors) and on the ohterhand you have a job that could easily be done by the myraid of businesses out there, probably for a lower cost(just look at the cost differeneces between union and non-union auto makers), yet only the unions are able to get the contracts. Seems like quite a different situation to me.
Annecdotal but related:
In the late spring of 1998, back when I was teaching special ed, I had to spend the day working in a K-1 classroom.
I was famished by the time lunch rolled around and even though I knew a new health rule against excess sodium in school menus had been mandated for our district, I still decided to eat with the kids in the lunchroom.
The only offering was a meatless, sauce-less serving of spaghetti, plain salad (no dressing) and fruit-cocktail for dessert. I swallowed the tasteless, saltless spaghetti whole and was promptly barfing it up the 1 PM recess!
I have eaten school lunches since then, but only when I’ve forgotten to pack my own and had no choice.
Oh that’s cute! May I borrow it sometime, you know, just in case? Being a brainless half-wits from Appalachia, I sometimes have trouble coming up with put-downs; folks here generally are more polite than to insult people with whom we have simple disagreements, so it’s not in my background or disposition.
BTW: You could have been clearer, as you usually jump all over MM w/o just cause or reason!
“Its essentially the same thing as saying, George Bush…Haliburton?” Huh?
Weird analogies not withstanding,
Ms. Malkin made a decent case about how SEIU will benefit from expanding the the school lunch programs and questioning how that affects Ms. Obama’s plan for reducing childhood obesity.
It also seems some here are race baiting, please stop it.
RSS – to wit:
Thanx, True!
Re pic:
Michelle: “Quick! Someone hide this sweet potato before my husband starts bowing to it!”
Ha! Thomas, you one note musical prodigy you. Still playing the kazoo out the wazoo, I see.
a) only Halliburton could get that contract, since there were of course no bids for the contract.
b) whether unions have contracts with school districts does not depend on the federal government’s health initiatives.
If it’s “race baiting” to call someone out for saying you can’t take the jungle out of African Americans, then I guess you can call me a race baiter.
Fat “cats” aren’t the only thing behind the ugly Zulu – - her ‘caboose’ could use a whole lotta trimming down too. So before Mee-Shell-Game Obummer pontificates about other fatties, she needs to look in a rear-butt mirror.
RSS,
You chose to make this about race. You did not have to respond to that post at all. You could have contributed by stating your opinion of the role of labor unions in today’s heavily legislated labor market.
Instead, you chose the respond to the post with the word “white” in it.
And as far as the Halliburton contract, it was for business that no other company could do. Opening it for bids would be like putting out an RFP for iPhones. How many companies make iPhones?
I wonder when the libs will start claiming that the government programs on nutrition are failures. Look at all the money they’ve dumped into nutrtion education and the kids just keep getting fatter.
I’m only using Bonnie Erbe’s (of NPR) analogy of wanting the government to stop funding abstinence only programs in order to cut down on teen pregnancies; STDs and the like because they claim they fail to do what they say they’ll do.
The failed logic of libs never ceases to amaze. Maybe it’s because both the obese kids and promiscuous teens aren’t paying attention.
I’m pretty sure the confirmed racist who put the word “white” in chose to make this about race. I chose to call out the confirmed racist, and you choose to ignore him.
Not trying to make a point about how Halliburton should or shouldn’t have received the no-bid contracts it got during the Bush (and Clinton) administrations. Just pointing out the glaring hole in MM’s argument that just because donors of Obama may (or may not) benefit from a policy doesn’t mean the policy is designed for the purpose of helping those donors, just as the Iraq war wasn’t waged for the purpose of helping out Halliburton.
Do you engage everyone you disagree with? If you firmly believe he is a confirmed racist, do you think it wise to provide an opportunity for even more racist statements?
A) Do you know anything about the contracting situation in Iraq? I do first hand as I worked as one for a few years in Iraq. KBR, the former Haliburton subsidiary got the contract they had all the pieces needed to set everything up. As I have posted before there is no way the company I worked for (a company that provided Maintenance support to the Military) could have done their job without the likes of KBR being there. Our company did not have the logistics to be able to provide housing, food, transportation like KBR did.
B) I never said it was depndent on the initiative. I was showing how absurd your comparison of the two subjects were. You never seem to want to compare apples to apples. I believe what MM was presenting is how Dem initiatives seem to favor their favorite constiuent….the union.
But seeing that you want to play the Iraq war Haliburton comparison card I have a question for you. Can you show me a public school that does not have unions running the school lunchroom?
This is where the difference is. Although KBR still holds a bunch of contracts in both Iraq and Afghanistan their are many many differnet companies that have contracts in those countries, unlike school lunch rooms where the unions have had a stranglehold on the contracts for God kows how many years.
We saw Iraq and Afghanistan opened up to fair bid procedures which provided even more companies (to include newly created ones) to get a piece of the action, where is the same kind of competitive bidding going on in school lunchrooms?
Errah who cares about obesity, she been named #93 in Maxim!!!! Better get those guys some better glasses. Wonder who she beat out for 94, Madeline Albright??!!
America’s children – nothing more than wards of the democratic propaganda state. Stuff them full of cr@py food while they listen to a biased excuse for education given by pathetic teachers! All we need is another “sputnik” to show just how much we have gone off course. Starve a bureaucrat – home school.
slightly off topic..
has anyone noticed the dazed and confused persona that Michelle puts out on her gag-worthy and omnipresent HAITI TV ad?also, how she mispronounces “street” as “schtreet”
… perhaps she really is more of an idiot than a master manipulator or as Tawana Brawley would say “manipsninator.”
This is a misrepresentation…ok, a lie.
In that ncase, she wouldn’t be working during lunch time…
The timing on this was perfect. I got a message from our school district asking how many of us would use a breakfast program if the school system here started one? It came with a reminder that if we qualified for free lunches, we would also qualify for free breakfast.
I copied your article, along with a link and your name, and pasted it into my reply.
Then he won’t mind if we cap the number of sick days that a janitor can accumulate, will he?
Because our teachers cry the same tears, yet manage to retire with hundreds of unused sick days that we have to pay them for, in cash.
And we have to cash them out at the rate they’re making when they retired, not the rate they were making when they banked the days. A retiring gym teacher got more than $400,000 for retiring a few years back.
Slightly off topic, but why are we feeding these children at school, aren’t they already getting food stamps? What does it take to get on this program?
I swear, these people have infiltrated every aspect of American life. And the only reason they have gained such great ground is the fact that Democrats have continued to not only get elected, but also lie to the people and pass legislation that increases government intrusion.
Should’a planted cotton…
Purplebellies meddling in the health of smallfolk; how am I not surprised?
THEY MEDDLE…
Yeah, I ignored the so-called race baiter, because sometimes its just better not to step in the poo.
Does this mean my chocolate ration is going to be reduced?
Sound advice.
And, when the Obamas enact a “fix” for THIS problem (no doubt, children starving in the streets) we’ll get yet another set of government solutions. Government solutions always do this. They exacerbate problems, and then our wonderful touchy-feely bung-hole leftist politicians suggest more solutions.
Anyone want to solve a lot of problems in America? Get rid of the wonderful touchy-feely bung-hole leftists, replace them with selfish, greedy laissez faire capitalist conservatives, and EVERYTHING will start going back in the right direction. This I assure you.
I was a kid in the ’50s and still remember it well. People weren’t regulated and controlled like they are today. People had homes, 1 worker, a car, and kids that went outside to play. Sure, there were the needy (always will have them) but charities were there to help; not government programs. Black communities took care of their own, and were safer than some white neighborhoods. Kids weren’t starving or obese, as the government wants you to believe today. Our major worry was “the bomb”. School lunches were nutrious and didn’t have the “fast food” options and such. If you wanted to, a bag lunch was something you brought with you. People had money, and could go as far up the ladder as they wished. Then the “great society” came, and it’s been a mess since. More problems now than ever.
How long will it take the Potises that Chicago politics do not work on a national level.
Mr. President, you foght for it, you won it, you own it, now get to work, and remember you are where the buck stops.
Well, no, and you shouldn’t call him names. Think it through – Are non-white members of middle class working Americans made to feel responsible for things like slavery, Jim Crow laws, and “Green River Ordinances?”
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