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The Memorial Day Massacre
Race and Appalachia And blogger "dna" from the toosense blog adds the missing links:This is better than most American coverage. But even this piece doesn't talk about the history of coal mining in the region. After emancipation, coal mining companies sought an advantage over unions by hiring former slaves as scabs since, the unions were racist, wouldn't allow blacks as members. The companies didn't have to fulfill many obligations to this new, unorganized labor force, and a lot of white miners lost their jobs. So it actually makes sense that people would see race relations as a question of pure exploitation; with one side dominating the other. That's the history of the region. Of course, what the white people could have done was take in black people into the unions, thus leaving the idiot, exploitative bosses with nowhere to turn. But they didn't. And then the blame was pushed on the negroes. How absolutely sensible.
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delux_vivensThe Memorial Day Massacre
Race and Appalachia And blogger "dna" from the toosense blog adds the missing links:This is better than most American coverage. But even this piece doesn't talk about the history of coal mining in the region. After emancipation, coal mining companies sought an advantage over unions by hiring former slaves as scabs since, the unions were racist, wouldn't allow blacks as members. The companies didn't have to fulfill many obligations to this new, unorganized labor force, and a lot of white miners lost their jobs. So it actually makes sense that people would see race relations as a question of pure exploitation; with one side dominating the other. That's the history of the region. Of course, what the white people could have done was take in black people into the unions, thus leaving the idiot, exploitative bosses with nowhere to turn. But they didn't. And then the blame was pushed on the negroes. How absolutely sensible.
