SHIRT

   As you may have noticed, I put this title in ALLCAPS because it is such an important issue that I think we, as consumers in the United States, choose to ignore. The fact is, so many corporations and clothing manufacturers today use sweat shops. As much as we don't want to believe that slavery still exists, it does. It's hard for us to know exactly what to buy and where it came from without spending a lot of time looking into it, but it's something that we should be able to if we don't want to encourage the use of sweat shops. As an American buyer, I know that I can be really lazy sometimes in terms of shopping. The typical American consumer is the same- lazy. But we need to start being aware of where things come from instead of just buying whatever fits or whatever we want. In class, we read the poem Shirt by Robert Pinsky. This truthful poem exploits the horrors of sweat shops and modern slavery. I think we all need to read this over and over until we really understand how important and present this issue is today. Then we can start doing something about it.