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C O M M O D I T Y

BY Latisha Ewute

“You may choose to look the other way but you can never say again that

you did not know.” – William Wilberforce

KINGDOM TRUTH ABOUT But no one can deny this: It hap-
HUMAN TRAFFICKING pened. Slavery is still happening,
all over the world even here in
As students, our history books the US. It is not isolated to one
have taught us many things about race, it never was. To one gender,
slavery. Many can debate wheth- no. To one demographic, no.
er the whole truth is given. They
can argue that the facts are wa- Slavery, or as it is repackaged in
tered down to ease the digestion today’s terms: human trafficking
of tender developing minds or is real and happening. It is not
truths were simply omitted, just isolated in faraway countries,
erased as a whitewashing of ne- third world countries, less pro-
cessity. Either way, in this coun- gressive countries or gender op-
try alone, the scars of our own pressive countries. It happens
making seem to never heal. EVERYWHERE.