Eleven Black Workers Sue Alligator River Farms in NC Alleging Racial Discrimination, Saying Forced to Dig Holes with Bare Hands

Eleven black workers sue Alligator River Farms in NC accusing the company of racial discrimination and forcing them to dig broccoli holes with their bare hands, are we reverting to Jim Crow Age?

Eleven black workers at the Alligator River Farms in Hyde County, North Carolina, sued the company because they were forced to dig holes with their hands and their terminations were blatantly racist. The workers allege the actions of the vegetable farm was to show there were no U.S. workers available, so the farm could bring in 58 Mexican workers on H-2A visas. According to Courthouse News, the lawsuit contends different standards than Mexican migrants and refused to even give them hand tools to plant the season's broccoli crop.

The 11 plaintiffs say that when they reported to work, they "were not given any hand tools. Defendant's supervisors instructed plaintiffs to create the hole in which to plant each broccoli plant with their hands and exhorted them to quickly plant flats of small broccoli plants." Source

Wow, if these allegations are true, this is really, really some deep sh*t. How do you expect someone to do their jobs digging holes with their bare hands? Are we back in the Jim Crow days  in the South? Read the lawsuit: