I wonder how many remember the Vincent Chin murder in Detroit. Chin was beaten to death by two autoworkers who were angry at the Japanese taking their jobs. (Chin was Chinese BTW)
Another “Professor” who is trying to re-write history. The barking seals will dutifully follow along....
I found this very interesting article:
Rahm Emanuel, Trade-Union Racism, and the Burden of History
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It’s history, but history creates a long shadow. In 2005, Ta-Nehisi Coates, now a star at The Atlantic, visited the South Side as WalMart was making inroads there and in cities throughout the country. There he found this painful wound was still fresh:
Chicago is a union town. But in Mitts’ ward—and among many poor blacks—some unions rank only a couple of notches above the Ku Klux Klan. Black leaders in Chicago have repeatedly charged that the building-trades unions, traditionally controlled by whites, are keeping a grip on jobs. While 37% of Chicago is black, only 10% of all new apprentices in the construction trades between 2000 and 2003 were black, according to the Chicago Tribune. The unions that most vociferously oppose Wal-Mart are not in the building trades but represent retail workers, such as the United Food and Commercial Workers (UFCW), which has long welcomed blacks.
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