Shyima Hall: Shyima Hall child labor plight (photo)
By Clarencia Cynrae on December 28th, 2008Shyima Hall is a child maid who grew up in her employer’s home. Shyima Hall, at 10 years old, was brought from Egypt to work at her employers’ home in California. Hallis paid $45 per month to work 20 hours daily. Hall has no leave and no breaks during the day. Shyima Hall (photo at link)is one of the countless child labor employed for peanuts. Hall has been working the past 9 years as a home domestic maid.
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December 29th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
The nerve! Just look at history and see how White people enslaved and tortured people and to this day many do not feel anything was wrong with it. Go read some history on what really took place as the whites brought Africans to America. Now they want to throw people in prison for having maids?;when the type of slavery they forced on innocent Africans was the most inhumane ever!
This American mindframe is backwards. Suddenly white people are judging what is right and wrong when it comes to slavery…culture?
mmmm, Ok buddy.
First of all, what these people in the story were doing is cultural. Even though it was illegal by our laws here, it was not intended on being malicious and evil.
Whereas, the slavery and brutality the whites oppressed Africans with was intended to be harsh, brutal, murderous, and evil in every way. No comparison.
They give prison time to the family’s that hired the girl as a maid (which is a normal cultural way of life in their country). Yet what punishments has any whites received for REAL documented atrocities? I mean, are you serious? What punishments has any white slave owners received??? Nothing!
That family had to pay her 76,000 for 2 years of maid work? What type of reparations have Africans received for 400 years of slavery?
So, Im sorry if I can’t respect the prosecutors in this case. I’m happy the girl is able to live a life alligned with the culture of America, since she is living IN America. That part I’m happy about. But the white people who are supposedly sooooo against such injustices! Get out of here! The nerve of them imprisoning people for being cultural…(why not just fine them and deport them?)…LOOK, I bet if you asked those white prosecutors would they put their grandfathers and grandmothers in prison who had Black maids all during the 50’s and 60’s…treating them as 2nd class citizens….(just look at our older movies. It was a normal thing.) Do they even look at that as an injustice? They would say, oh no…my grandparents were being gracious to hire them. (same thing the Egyptians said, about their own hiring of maids right?)