Lit Circle letter 3

Its amazing how its so easy to point fingers at others, but when it comes to you, you just cant do it. This book talks about how much there are slavery going on everwhere. When we read it, its so easy to say "Oh, it's not our problem, its not happenning near me, its not affecting me." But we are so ignorant of what is actually happenning right under our noses.

With a case like Reina's, the community of San Diego knew they had a problem.
Like citizens of many American cities, San Diegans had a hard time saying,
"There is slavery in our town."

No one wants something like this to happen. But I'm sure that slavery is happenning around us. There is a possibility that even in Alameda, or the Bay Area, there are slavery happenning. As much as no one wants to admit this, we all have to admit it. It is the first step to ending slavery.

"After the shock of finding that they had slavery in the prduct chain of
their cocoa, the chocolate compinies scrambled for answers. Forward movement
showed, however, by the fact that the biggest of these companies, Hershey, Mars,
and Nestle, are fiecely competitive. Because they control so much market, they
are also nervous about ever being accusedof price-fixing or violating antitrust
laws. Some of these companies actually had rules that none of their employees
should ever be in a room alone with a person from another company."

It's crazy how much trouble people will put up with just so that others wont find out what they have been doing. I'm sure it is the same thing with slave owners. Do they make it seem like everything is alright? How do they do that? Like this rule above, wouldn't it sound or look suspicious?

This book is really really good. I can't believe this is the last Lit Circle Letter for the school year.