The Price of NAACP Compromise was Too High - Gerald Horne on Reality Asserts Itself (1/6)

Mr. Horne, author of The Counter-Revolution of 1776, says it was a turning point in the history of black America when the NAACP succumbed to the pressures of the Cold War - the affects of which are still felt today

[@CallousCarter]

Black Scare is still over here in Britain so no idea what it will be like parts of the USA. You should see how twitchy people get when I stand behind them in the que for an ATM. I still get people occasionally moving seats on the bus.

[@syourke3]

Do you wonder why? Blacks commit way more street crime than whites. It’s perfectly reasonable to beware of black men at an ATM.

[@amirfahmi2035]

NAACP - no money

[@Playthellgb42]

Dr; Gerald Horne is a good friend and coleague of mine. He is a brilliant scholar but I think that he is wrong about the value of trade unions to black Americans, since most of them were racist and barred black workers. This is particularly true of the trade unions in the American Federation of Labor, where the highest paying jobs were to be found. These unions uniformly barred black Americans from membership in their founding charters! In the South, where the great struggle against legal apartheid and racial discrimination, labor unions were practically non-existent, and where they did exist they operated to exclude Afro-Americans from the workplace!!

[@Jyagos1]

Playthell Benjamin
That has a lot to do with the history of the south and slavery which caused segregation of labor. With their violent repression of black people, they could justify the union jobs for whites which gave them more surplus value and labor.
But you should look up the origin of the police which helps explain why their use of force helped to eliminate any organization of black labor.

[@breaks0]

+Playthell Benjamin What unions are you talking about? He decidedly DOESNT have the afl in mind in his work. His work on the Civil Rights Congress, Ferdinand Smith, Labor movement in Hawaii and Hollywood doesn't play up role of establishment unions like the afl. He's looking alot more at Communist and other lefty parts of labor movements in the US and greater African diaspora.

[@robertrichard6107]

There was the Union that was all black I recall on the passenger trains in the Pullman cars, Porters etc

[@jupitercyclops6521]

If you didn't vote for biden, you aren't black.
Cornpop was a bad dude& he ran a bad crew.

[@StCloud-ns7vt]

7:18!