and the sense of life in florida. this is a complex place skip. there s migrant laborers. people descended from slavery. there s recent though he meehan immigrants. there s indigenous people, native americans,. they re so it s something she knows, but it s something he knows intimately and intellectually. ibram, let me ask you about when this book was first published. it was slammed by hurston s male contemporaries. a prolific author in his own right, credited with changing racial relations in the u.s., famously the righted than all evil, calling it a minstrel show turned that mix the white folks laugh. talk to me. this is one example. there were lots of strong reactions. why and what were they based on, and why did they happen? unfortunately, if you were reading their eyes were watching god as a black american through the white guys, in other, words you are thinking about how white people may be experiencing it, then
abuses. advocates are calling on organizers to do more for the migrant workers who helped make the tournament a reality. they say workers and their families still deserve compensation for unpaid wages, injuries, even deaths. cnn s larry madowo joins us now from doha with more. larry, there s this glitzy, showy world of the world cup we see on tv then the real world that lies underneath, something you have been looking into. what more can you tell us? reporter: kim, what i found is that the action on the pitch and the glamour of qatar and the world cup masks a really dark reality for the thousands of of migrant workers who made it possible. i ve watched the games in the stadium and at the park and none of this is possible without migrant laborers, they are from bangladesh, sri lanka, india and pak pakistan, but also uganda, kenya and gana. they live in horrible conditions, work 14, 16 hour
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i m an oil baron, he left that out. but that s what the approach was, and yet when it comes time to actually show that level of transparent solidarity. as people pile on qatar for its laws, for its customs, for authoritarian rule, we have to remember that fifa and western sponsors, we have to remember that all the nations lined up to do this over the last decade, which makes some of the protests now a little bit thin. let me read your piece, dave, and then i want to bring in rick stengel to this conversation. you write this for msnbc. we can express solidarity with the lgbtq community of qatar and a express solidarity with the women and migrant laborers who died while helping qatar look presentable for this world cup and link the laws to a broader international trend to right
ever since. but the world cup had been in france, for example or england or the united states, those iranian players could ve launched the same protest without thousands of migrant workers being harmed to construct all of the stadiums in qatar. i mean, that s the problem, qatar has no soccer history. they have no infrastructure. they literally had to build eight stadiums and they did it on the backs of these migrant laborers who paid money to get jobs in qatar, go deep into debt and then get these brutally abusive jobs where they re outside working in construction at 100 degrees summers. so there s just no good reason to have this tournament in qatar, it was entirely based on corruption. grant, it s hard to enjoy it against that backdrop but i know that that is part of the challenge, certainly for viewers, tell us about the u.s. team and what we need to know. will the u.s. team is very young they re the first u.s. team to get back to the world cup in eight years after missing out four