John Henry

Talcott, West Virginia

A telling story of the current times is one of John Henry, a black man who worked himself to death. John Henry's story represents many different things to different people. No matter what he did, he couldn't "fight the system," the system being the steam hammer machine he was racing against, the system being the white man he was working for, the system being the advancement of technology and jobs being shipped overseas. Some of us are "John Henry," working as hard as we can to stay relevant in today's job world.

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