MSNBC The ReidOut June 4, 2024 00:06:00
For example, balsaid, books, and statues like this one in west virginia depict john henry as large and muscular, a paul bunyan type, but the real guy was described as a small man, perfectly sized for tunnel work. and the machine that he battled, the steam drill, took his life with chemicals, not by noble exhaustion. and did the same to many of the black laborers who were forced to hand drill holes deep into solid rock in order to set explosives to cut into the mountains. their inhalation of dust and chemicals, the exposure to disease, that gets left out. we don't learn about the chinese migran...