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Strippers, Booze and Race Riots: A day in the life of BP\u2019s Cleanup Workers<\/a><\/p>\n

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From the article:<\/p>\n

Upstairs, on the open-air deck, the supervisors and professional contractors drink. One comes over to talk; he calls me a Yankee when I don’t get that when he says “animals” he means black guys. Another tells us about the crime-prone “monkeys.” I have already stopped counting how many times I’ve heard the n-word on Grand Isle today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

An ex-Army Ranger so drunk he can hardly stand asks me if I have a boyfriend. When I lie and say that I do and he’s right over there somewhere, the Ranger scowls and pushes me. I move to the other side of the ring, where some guy wraps a tight grip around my waist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“You can have some of BP’s money too if you let me make love to you,” he says.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I’m not a prostitute,” I inform him, backing up to create some space between our pelvises, but he presses an insistent forearm harder into the small of my back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“I’m not trying to play you like a prostitute,” he says. “I’m just saying: Whatever it takes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The near-desperate levels of racial and sexual aggression in this horde aren’t what you usually get at a strip show in a bar. It feels more like a strip show in a prison yard.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The article reads like a tale set in one of those dystopian futures where men have turned into primal beings led by the most simplistic kind of instinct based behavior. Of course I understand that’s precisely the tone the writer wanted to set for the article, but it doesn’t make it any less depressing.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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