• banneryear1868@lemmy.world
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    Sometimes even the way slavery is taught, as if the point of slavery was to produce white supremacy rather than cotton and not the other way around, an economic system which these notions of race and white supremacy developed to explain and justify.

    Then post-Civil War you have this Populist movement which condensed the interests of both black and white labor and really threatened the landowners, and out of that comes things like Booker T Washington’s “Atlantic Compromise” and notions of race relations. It isn’t really until the New Deal and the 50-60s with A. Philip Randolph and MLK Jr that you get any kind of serious civil rights connections to labor organizing again.

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      as if the point of slavery was to produce white supremacy rather than cotton and not the other way around

      This is a perfect summary of how I feel the civil war is taught in the north.

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        It can become very hypocritical when it comes to neighborhood development and mortgage redlining. Not the same as Jim Crow but basically a system of segregation, not to mention the policing in the mix. “I mean I’m not racist but think of our real estate value here…”