Black Florida Parents: DO NOT Exploit Your Children

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No, Black America. Do not allow your children be exploited by corporations because the GOP has deported immigrants, and now they need workers to fill those jobs. This is ignorant policy and strips children of their childhood, opportunities for education, and feeds into a broken worker’s rights system.

“Proposals going through the Florida legislature removing several child labor protections were just amended to allow some 13-year-olds to work.

The legislature last year passed policy allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to work 30-hour weeks. This year, new proposals in the Florida House and Senate would allow them to work full-time and ease rules for 14- and 15-year-olds who are enrolled in homeschool, virtual education, or those who have already graduated. The house version would allow 13-year-olds to work during the summer of the year they turn 14.”

As an excuse to justify this exploitation, “Palm Bay Republican Representative Monique Miller said during her bill’s first committee stop that it will give more control to families about deciding when their children work.”

“I think every family needs to make that decision for what's best for them, instead of having the government tell them what's best,” she said.

This is deceptive language disguised as giving parents and young adults an opportunity and to resist government control, but this is nothing more than an admission to their exploitation of children. The government is not telling parents what is best, but they would have parents believe this and resist by making this choice themselves. This is called double speak. Again, No!

“These bills being considered come days after Governor Ron DeSantis supported the idea of increased teen labor making up for labor by immigrants.

“What’s wrong with expecting our young people to work part time? That’s how it used to be when I was growing up. Why do we say we need to import foreigners, even import them illegally, when you know, teenagers used to work at these resorts, college students should be able to do this stuff,” he said.”

First, the governor is lying through his teeth. When he was a teen, (during the early 80s), there were part time summer jobs and few after school jobs, but no jobs that allowed children to work overnight, 30-40 hours a week, or jobs that did not have government protections. He is a liar and think he is smarter than the average person.

The white man’s dream is to push young Black and brown kids into the fields and work them as long as they want and for as little money as possible. As a Black parent, do not allow these people to exploit your children. Although hard times can hit any family financially, no one should sacrifice their freedoms and dignity for a pay check.