Staying on politics, I saw an interesting speech on YOU TUBE given by Richard Trumka, the Secretary-Treasurer of the AFL-CIO, to the Steelworkers Union.
It was a powerful speech and he is a good speaker but the subject matter concerned the “fact” that many union members will not vote for a black (African-American). Trumka’s speech lambasted those unionists that still are racists, even though closet racists.
He said that the Democratic Party is the labor party not the Republicans so if you value your job, you will be color blind in this election.
The Democrats have always been pro-labor and this election is not exception. Obama promised to stop NAFTA, eliminate secret worker elections for or against unionization and just allow union thugs to coerce workers into signing up for union representation, bail-out the auto companies with our tax dollars and get the FBI to quit monitoring the Teamsters Union for mob connections.
Here is a party willing to keep the dying union movement breathing and the rank and file cannot and many will not vote for a man with dark skin WHAT A BLOODY IRONY!!!
Union members want to keep the union movement alive because where else can you get big money and benefits with no education under your belt. BUT with no education under your belt, you also tend to think and act a little; shall we say conservatively or non-progressively?
The union leadership can preach brotherhood all they want to but racism is hard to eliminate (on both sides) when it has been ingrained from childhood.
I think of Obama as white since he was raised by a white mother and her white parents; the African father played no role in Obama’s upbringing except to give him dark skin. African-American leaders did not look at Obama as one of their own; remember “not black enough”? Obama is not from the hood, doesn’t speak like he is from the hood and has no “hood” experiences just Catholic schools and Harvard – how black is that?
In our society if you have dark skin you are “black” no matter how little genetic blackness is in your DNA (Tiger Woods is in the same boat).
Obama wants “Change” but there are some things that just will not change and white union racism will die when the unions finally die.
It was a powerful speech and he is a good speaker but the subject matter concerned the “fact” that many union members will not vote for a black (African-American). Trumka’s speech lambasted those unionists that still are racists, even though closet racists.
He said that the Democratic Party is the labor party not the Republicans so if you value your job, you will be color blind in this election.
The Democrats have always been pro-labor and this election is not exception. Obama promised to stop NAFTA, eliminate secret worker elections for or against unionization and just allow union thugs to coerce workers into signing up for union representation, bail-out the auto companies with our tax dollars and get the FBI to quit monitoring the Teamsters Union for mob connections.
Here is a party willing to keep the dying union movement breathing and the rank and file cannot and many will not vote for a man with dark skin WHAT A BLOODY IRONY!!!
Union members want to keep the union movement alive because where else can you get big money and benefits with no education under your belt. BUT with no education under your belt, you also tend to think and act a little; shall we say conservatively or non-progressively?
The union leadership can preach brotherhood all they want to but racism is hard to eliminate (on both sides) when it has been ingrained from childhood.
I think of Obama as white since he was raised by a white mother and her white parents; the African father played no role in Obama’s upbringing except to give him dark skin. African-American leaders did not look at Obama as one of their own; remember “not black enough”? Obama is not from the hood, doesn’t speak like he is from the hood and has no “hood” experiences just Catholic schools and Harvard – how black is that?
In our society if you have dark skin you are “black” no matter how little genetic blackness is in your DNA (Tiger Woods is in the same boat).
Obama wants “Change” but there are some things that just will not change and white union racism will die when the unions finally die.
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