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    You are what you sayFelice León
    9/04/17 10:28am

    News flash: The history of labor in America is racist AF

    I mean what part of any history in America isn’t racist?

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      Cabbage Patch MatherYou are what you say
      9/04/17 5:09pm

      Hell, what part of the history of any country on the planet isn’t racist?

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      Babylon SystemYou are what you say
      9/04/17 5:21pm

      “News flash: The history of labor in America is racist AF” - The End

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    Rooo sez BISH PLZFelice León
    9/04/17 2:00pm

    So - once again - black people do something and the whole country benefits, but black people don’t end up benefitting as much as everyone else?

    /hmm

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      Babylon SystemRooo sez BISH PLZ
      9/04/17 5:26pm

      America also has a long history of using the government agencies to fight black ownership in anything. See the “Black Star Line” and Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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      Cabbage Patch MatherRooo sez BISH PLZ
      9/04/17 5:28pm

      I would argue the opposite, that racism in general hasn’t benefitted the US. Slavery and Jim Crow were not only morally horrendous, but they were also economically disastrous. Aside from an obscene amount of damage to the Black national psyche (and the national moral psyche), the labor movement shot itself in the foot more than once by discriminating against Black workers, and the South relegated itself to economic and intellectual backwardness for more than a century with Jim Crow. 

      Racism diminishes purchasing power, entrepreneurship, technological advancement, etc.

      If the US had never held slaves, but had allowed one million West African immigrants into the US, we would currently be a century ahead economically, technologically, and socially.

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    thekladyFelice León
    9/04/17 11:10pm

    Love this video! Want to see a part 2 that carries on history til today. Particularly who and how within the labor movement supported civil rights. Black workers were still discriminated against/neglected by many labor unions until recent history.

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    sidthecatFelice León
    9/04/17 4:30pm

    It is a truth that we have never copped to: racism is the congenital disease in America’s DNA, and this society will never be healthy until it undergoes the moral equivalent of a stem-cell transplant.

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    Sean RFelice León
    9/04/17 5:13pm

    Remember, a number of trade unions were segregated until the Seventies, and they only integrated due to court orders.

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    Hurrrr313Felice León
    9/04/17 10:30pm

    Black people should all be “right to work people” and why mention all the demonstrative good that Blacks and Whites and Hispanics in the labor movement have accomplished on Labor Day when you can hand wave a movement over 100 years old that’s done more good for people of every color than virtually any other movement.

    Jesus. Fucking. Christ this is bougie short sightedness.

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    Fleur-de-litFelice León
    9/04/17 11:51am

    That was fascinating, thank you.

    Workers of the world, unite!

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    Megann HarveyFelice León
    9/04/17 3:56pm

    How did black women feature in the black labor movement?

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