"When we think about why the United States does not have the social welfare policies of Europe, understanding the anger of white workers when the idea of the nation as a white state became challenged is a critical part of the problem."
Umair Haque has an essay wherein he posits that white Americans, as a voting bloc, don't really WANT a better country. They will shoot themselves in the foot, over and over, and vote for people and policies that make their lives demonstrably worse, rather than live in a country that includes and benefits the people they hate.
Between 1915 and 1970, approximately six million African Americans left their homes in the South for the cities of the North and, increasingly, the West.
Inasmuch as we learned about the Great Migration at all (I'm pretty sure I never heard that term until after college), we learned that it was just because of the growing industrial capacity, and therefore availability of jobs, in the North and West. Never heard a word about the racist terrorism and oppression that people were fleeing. It was all the "movin' on up" myth.
Rich capitalists hold such vastly different views and values from the average worker that the two may as well be separate species, but do go on about how your Black brother working the line over there is somehow hurting you.
As I said the last time Dr. Loomis posted an article centered on Detroit: I am simply shocked, SHOCKED that as a white kid growing up in the white-flight suburbs of Detroit that I didn't learn about this in school.
I see Erik is a history professor at URI (You Are High😉)If he was teaching this material at U of Georgia, Marge would be chasing him across the quad 🤦♂️
"When we think about why the United States does not have the social welfare policies of Europe, understanding the anger of white workers when the idea of the nation as a white state became challenged is a critical part of the problem."
Umair Haque has an essay wherein he posits that white Americans, as a voting bloc, don't really WANT a better country. They will shoot themselves in the foot, over and over, and vote for people and policies that make their lives demonstrably worse, rather than live in a country that includes and benefits the people they hate.
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Erik, thanks. I did NOT know a lot of this.
Unlike assault rifles, republicans will go to any length to ensure this bit of history never gets within 1000 feet of a school.
Between 1915 and 1970, approximately six million African Americans left their homes in the South for the cities of the North and, increasingly, the West.
How was I born in Brooklyn? C'est ça, va
Each time, white people did such things, they proved that they were, not only, not superior . . . but not even equal.
"Japanese propagandists began to use the racism in Detroit to try and convince Black soldiers to stop fighting."
And Russia uses the racial divide in the US to stir unrest and has for a decade or more.
Inasmuch as we learned about the Great Migration at all (I'm pretty sure I never heard that term until after college), we learned that it was just because of the growing industrial capacity, and therefore availability of jobs, in the North and West. Never heard a word about the racist terrorism and oppression that people were fleeing. It was all the "movin' on up" myth.
Just say it - inferior.
Racism has caused almost as many problems as religion.
The USSR did that in the fifties, as I recall, and no doubt earlier.
Thank you once again for a valuable, thought provoking history lesson, Professor Loomis.
It has been studying this nation's history that has been essential to maintaining my humility as a white woman.
Anyone who's not ashamed of what too many racist White Americans have done has not been paying attention.
It may have been recommended already but The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson is an exccellent book on the Great Migration.
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Rich capitalists hold such vastly different views and values from the average worker that the two may as well be separate species, but do go on about how your Black brother working the line over there is somehow hurting you.
As I said the last time Dr. Loomis posted an article centered on Detroit: I am simply shocked, SHOCKED that as a white kid growing up in the white-flight suburbs of Detroit that I didn't learn about this in school.
I see Erik is a history professor at URI (You Are High😉)If he was teaching this material at U of Georgia, Marge would be chasing him across the quad 🤦♂️