>Is looking fly important when what
>makes you "look fly" makes
>others have to live in
>horrible conditions?

Important question to ask. AND an important *type* of "awareness" question to ask on top of that.

Check out
>http://www.nikewages.org if you don't know
>what conditions these are.

Or try nlc.net or clr.net for more particulars.

>As for black-owned business getting a
>piece of the pie, forget
>a pie, if the employees
>of the factory can't even
>eat.

Yes and no. Most of the time, more constructive work can be done by appealing to the black-owned businessman (on some of these same grounds) rather than dismissing him.

>I'm sure most blacks are against
>slavery and that's what the
>people in third world countries
>who make these clothes are
>dang near subjected to.

There's no "dang near" about it.

>I'm sure with all our surplus
>here in America, there gots
>to be options to sweatshop-made
>clothing.

Unfortunately, there really aren't any viable ones. That's kind of the "still" in my subject. k_orr doesn't really have the "sweat-free" option. So if you like a brand of clothing, try to convince the company (on the grounds that you, as a loyal and enthusiastic consumer would be encouraged to buy with a better -- or better-enforced -- company code of conduct) to change.

>Hopefully there
>are more, and that you
>are succesful in finding fly,
>sweatshop free clothing,

There really aren't, in my experience. UNITE clothing isn't really that fly.

Alek


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