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WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: WTOP (tokyo rose) ()
Date: March 20, 2019 11:57PM

IT'S YOUR CABLE MONEY THEY'RE STEALING

HANG THOSE BASTARDS

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Posted by: Niggers n balls ()
Date: March 21, 2019 12:38AM

Watch em play basketball or struggle to read Dr. Seuss???
Your call

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: Op, you suck ()
Date: March 21, 2019 12:50AM

Op, you suck. White people dont like you. Black people don’t like you. Your parents probably want you out of their house. Nobody likes you. It must be a very lonely existence in that uneducated, racist head. You suck, but you’re too dumb to realize iy

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: Niggahs reading level ()
Date: March 21, 2019 09:58PM

Op, you suck Wrote:
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> Op, you suck. White people dont like you. Black
> people don’t like you. Your parents probably
> want you out of their house. Nobody likes you. It
> must be a very lonely existence in that
> uneducated, racist head. You suck, but you’re
> too dumb to realize iy
But we can all agree that :

A. Niggahs can’t read.

B. Niggahs don’t float

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: x693v ()
Date: March 22, 2019 01:21AM

in early america they drowned women to see if they were a witch

these assholes walk off with $400 million for playing a game instead of playing the game of life

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: Op, is racist and dumb ()
Date: March 22, 2019 06:09AM

It wasn’t football, dumb fuck. Nobody hasn’t ever gotten that contract or near it for playing football. Learn to read hillbilly

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: Paywhowhatwhen&why ()
Date: March 22, 2019 09:33AM

4M is enough “reparations”. Can this matter be settled now?

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: He is not black. ()
Date: March 22, 2019 10:50AM

He was white and he plays baseball. His last name is Trout. Look him up. Google him.

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Posted by: xxu3f ()
Date: March 22, 2019 05:54PM

drop dead g2. sports is not a reparation organization.

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: Soul brother #1 ()
Date: March 22, 2019 08:57PM

Trump supporters are the dumbest.

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: UHTLP ()
Date: March 22, 2019 10:10PM

STOP going to the games and STOP buying the merch and STOP treating the players like heros.

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Date: March 23, 2019 11:04PM

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Date: March 25, 2019 07:28PM

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Date: March 25, 2019 09:17PM

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: phk7j ()
Date: March 27, 2019 11:16AM

WTOP is an evil seed, they are mob connected

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: pappy pimp ()
Date: March 27, 2019 08:20PM

WTOP (tokyo rose) Wrote:
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> IT'S YOUR CABLE MONEY THEY'RE STEALING
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> HANG THOSE BASTARDS
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Sad that it so much more than the $5 you get for sucking cock

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Date: March 28, 2019 11:30PM

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Date: April 01, 2019 09:13PM

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Date: April 01, 2019 09:14PM

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Date: April 03, 2019 09:56PM

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Date: April 13, 2019 11:43AM

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Date: April 16, 2019 11:21PM

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Date: April 26, 2019 11:28AM

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Date: June 07, 2019 11:03AM

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Date: June 10, 2019 08:14AM

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Date: June 12, 2019 09:00AM

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Date: June 24, 2019 05:30PM

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: Thug.Niggah ()
Date: June 25, 2019 07:30PM

Yo...check it...

Yo, OP...sorry 'bout that white cock you got...

Lol...muh dick.

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Date: July 09, 2019 04:34PM

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Date: July 14, 2019 01:04PM

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: Cubolsson ()
Date: July 18, 2019 01:38AM

Betting makes football more interesting as bettors are also involved in the game. Punters lose and win with their teams and everyone wants to be a winner. Presently there is no law to regulate betting and for this reason, everyone is free to do calculations; make predictions and also try influencing outcome of the matches to win bets with hot football tips.

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: 6cc3j ()
Date: July 21, 2019 05:09PM


It's your cable bill.

You should at least pretend to be pissed of.

if some nigga is walking off with $400 Million for playing a game - you can be the money is no better spent in the rest of that "industry"

that "industry" gets government money: arts grants and other grants

and it gets your CABLE BILL $$$


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Posted by: Kingspell sucks ()
Date: July 23, 2019 07:32AM

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Date: July 27, 2019 10:02AM

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Date: August 19, 2019 12:08PM

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: ptxjy ()
Date: August 20, 2019 05:15PM

Think of how much they will spend to keep the economy afloat, its free money. When they get hurt and are forced to retire, they will have nothing left, because they have no idea how to put wealth away for the coming rainy days. Goodby Ferrari and mansion on the Potomac; hello, tent city on the side streets of San Franshitsco. Meanwhile their high spending habits have kept many less fortunate folks afloat...for awhile...

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: 8osdfkjf ()
Date: September 15, 2019 04:25PM

we're talking about people being boo'ed off the field

we're talking about an industry that has VERY FEW paying customers

(it's all cable tv money mis-directed to criminals - instead of spent on internet improvement, science news, and other actually constructive purposes)

you didn't ask your ISP to fund $400 million for football player pay

SO WHY ARE YOU HAVING TO PAY THAT NIGGER ????

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Date: September 16, 2019 02:00PM

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Date: September 20, 2019 02:44PM

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Date: November 17, 2019 02:54PM

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Date: November 18, 2019 01:24PM

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
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Date: November 23, 2019 11:05PM

cuck stadium

could've been a factory, could've been a contended

cucked instead

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Date: November 23, 2019 11:06PM

could have been a contender in the globe

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Re: WTOP praises the most corrupt contract ever: nigger gets $400 million for playing football
Posted by: A Gonzalez ()
Date: November 23, 2019 11:25PM

gerrymanderer2 (OP) posts several lies on ffu daily - many know he's a paid FBI agent who is enslaved to do it for false CIA Imperialist Propaganda. He floods ffu with useless posts to bump down major news, posts fecal matter, mutilated bodies, child porn, foreign drug ads and sneaker ads, tells people to kill themselves and government should seize them and put them on psych pills in prison - decided by democrat gov of course, promotes kangaroo courthouse trials, gives anti-religious rants, gives satanic ritual rants, posts white males with small dicks raping young Native American females, portends white low birth rate and fall of USA, food tampering/poisoning, and anything possible to DEMORALIZE white people on ffu. (perhaps a chinese prisoner or isis member - but definitely knowledgeable of fx co gov from the inside at times). the website operator has told him "not to post or return" which are still posted - not removed, by the sysop: not because of a political leaning but for continual illegal and gross spam along with messages that are only to demoralize if not kill others. he/she plays at financial terrorism as well: continuall reporting false financial data, and fake emergency please from (fake members of the community he makes up).

BUMPING UP THE SAME STUPID THREADS AGAIN, AREN'T WE, G2?

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Date: November 24, 2019 06:04PM

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Date: November 26, 2019 01:57PM

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Posted by: Barrickman ()
Date: January 08, 2020 12:15AM

On December 20, the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Metro Board (WMATA) approved a four-year contract for nearly 8,000 public transit workers. The contract was ratified the previous day by workers in Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 689, the system’s largest union.

The contract, which was ratified by 93 percent of ATU 689 members, is being presented by WMATA and the union as putting an end to the privatization of transit operations. It declares that once all current outsourced contracts expire, WMATA will “transition back in-house.”

The contract will also scrap the plan to privately operate WMATA’s Silver Line extension, and vows to “transition” the privately-contracted bus garage on Cinder Bed Road back to public ownership once Metro’s contract with the “public transit firm” Transdev expires in early 2022.

Since October, nearly 130 Metro bus drivers and mechanics at the privately-operated Cinder Bed Road garage in Northern Virginia have been on strike against unsafe working conditions, low pay and insufficient benefits. While Transdev employees operate WMATA buses and serve routes previously run by the public system, they receive pay that is substantially less than their public-sector counterparts and pay far higher health deductibles and other expenses.

The public Metro employees’ overwhelming ratification of the contract reflects deep hostility to the privatization of job functions that has been implemented by WMATA, but the deal will do nothing to stop WMATA’s attacks on the wages and benefits of metro employees. Instead, it will extend the low-wage regime in the private sector to the public system, while utilizing the ATU to enforce the attacks on the public workers.

There is no reason for workers to accept WMATA’s promises to cease privatization. WMATA General Manager Paul J. Wiedefeld has routinely violated Metro’s collective bargaining agreements with the ATU, contracting out work at will.

WMATA sold its Cinder Bed Road garage to Transdev in 2018 while the collective bargaining agreement forbidding privatization was still in force. The ATU permitted this move, mounting empty protests while ignoring votes from its membership to launch a strike against the attack.

The new contract provides for an average wage increase of 2.4 percent per year, which will be entirely eaten up by inflation. It promises an additional 1 percent wage increase if Metro’s annual ridership grows by at least 2 percent in a year. This miserly incentive is based on the WMATA’s bogus claim that the workers are to blame for the loss of riders in recent years. In reality, the decline in the riding public is due to underfunding, lack of maintenance and cuts in service.

The contract “restructures” the starting pay for cleaning staff from 70 percent of the maximum rate to 60 percent for all new-hires, a 15 percent wage cut. It thereby establishes a sub-standard second tier of workers.

In addition, WMATA will raise out-of-pocket health care contributions by retirees. Considering that “other post-employment benefits” such as health care are cited by financial officials as key threats to Metro’s credit rating, which is contingent on WMATA keeping its operating budget growth under 3 percent per year, this concession opens the door to further cuts and the impoverishment of older workers and retirees.

According to the regional publication Greater Greater Washington, “In many years, even the cost of doing everything the same has risen by more than 3 percent, so sometimes WMATA will have to cut just to stand still. Or even if not, doing one thing like restoring late-night service can force cuts or fare hikes elsewhere.”

Unsurprisingly, Metro officials were pleased with the contract. “After many months of negotiation, we reached a good deal for our employees that also provides our Board of Directors with an affordable option for bus and rail service for the next four years,” stated General Manager Paul Wiedefeld in a press release.

For its part, the ATU gloated in a December 20 press release that “thousands” of its members voted for the contract “with only a few days notice.” Doubtless, this short notice was by design on the part of the union, which did not wish to give its members adequate time to read and consider what was on offer.

The union declares that the deal provides “a path towards bringing the Cinder Bed Bus garage in-house while protecting the workers that work there now.” It then pivots to note that the agreement “does not immediately end the ongoing strike” at Cinder Bed because “nfortunately, Transdev has not met our simple demands for written guarantees that the company will not retaliate and a commitment to good faith bargaining.”

Not only is the present workforce at Cinder Bed still under threat of retaliation, but the ATU obscures the real content of the deal regarding the Cinder Bed workers’ rehiring by WMATA. Under the heading “Transfers,” the agreement states that once Metro terminates its contract with Transdev, “former employees … working at the Cinder Bed Road facility … shall become employees of the Authority in the job classification held at the time of transfer, provided, however, that such employees make application for employment under the Authority’s regular employment process and meet all the qualifications” [Emphasis added].

In other words, their “path” to employment at WMATA is as fraught with uncertainty as that of anyone hired off of the street. Elsewhere, the contract states that these same workers will have the “one-time option” to “buy back” any pension amount to which they were entitled for their time at Transdev.

The ATU declares it “completely unacceptable” that Transdev has refused to meet again for negotiations until January 14, at which point the Cinder Bed workers will have been on strike without pay for nearly 90 days. Despite this empty protest, the ATU emphasizes that it is willing to end the strike immediately without a single workers’ demand being met so long as the company doesn’t “retaliate” and is committed to “good faith bargaining.”

Finally, the ATU reiterates its demand for WMATA to intercede in the dispute and terminate its contract with the private firm.

In fact, WMATA has given its answer by continuing to pay Transdev the full amount for its contract while the company strings the workers along for months on the picket line. For its part, the ATU has scabbed on its own members, forcing its 7,500 public-sector members to remain on the job while the strike continues.

Earlier this month, a strike of 600 bus drivers in the parallel Fairfax Connector system, which is also operated by Transdev, was called off without a single demand being met after the strike raised the possibility of a unified struggle of transit workers in the Washington, DC area, one of the busiest regions in the United States.

It is imperative that the struggle for decent pay, retirement, health care and job safety be taken out of the hands of the ATU. If workers at Cinder Bed Road are to avoid a complete sellout and possible victimization, they must organize rank-and-file committees, independent of the pro-management ATU, to mobilize the active support of their fellow workers in the Metro system and the greater region.

Appeals should also be made to New York City’s Metropolitan Transit Authority workers, who have been saddled with a tentative concessions contract that would give Transport Workers Union (TWU) Local 100 a stake in the system’s profits, depending on its ability to increase the exploitation of its members.

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Date: January 09, 2020 09:29PM

Resistance to white supremacists is on the rise. African Americans are the loudest voices, logically, given that it’s common for Blacks to be stopped by cops or harassed by “citizen whites” for walking, eating, driving — merely existing.

African Americans historically have been willing to join and lead the battle for real equity and against white supremacy. It’s a fight they can’t win alone. Allies are needed.

Will white Americans, then, step up or accept the status quo? If not, it is a delusion to expect the far right to be defeated by an electoral strategy based on new compromises with the conservative movement.

Establishment Democrats, including many liberals, continue to see Blacks standing up for themselves, and upstart progressives winning elections, as the primary threat to their power.

Class solidarity must stand on a platform of anti-racism, anti-white supremacy to build working-class unity to defeat the right. It will not be a re-run of the 1930s — when segregation was the law in much of the land, and the practice in most of it — where the labor movement could grow even while refusing to confront segregation and laws against nonwhite immigrants.

The hard truth is that support for the Trump Republican Party remains strong (of course not unanimous) among whites in what’s called the red states. His regime actively erodes and rolls back basic civil and human rights, and programs that help working people, especially people of color but big parts of his white voting base too!

Most white Americans will at least voice opposition to racism, and open white supremacists are a minority. But since they don‘t see racism directly affecting them, the majority of white people either actively or passively go along with policies that disproportionately hit Blacks and communities of color, immigrants in particular.

African-American Leadership
Blacks, on the other hand, have seen this picture before and are afraid of the white backlash. There is anxiety. There is also a greater awareness from the new generations, especially Black women, to fight back by any means necessary.

The gap between what the Democratic Party elite and mainstream liberal media are saying, and what the Black media report about resistance, is widening. As was the case during the civil rights era, there is the white world, and the Black reality.

White supremacist ideology — consciously and by default — has centuries of roots in the country. Even at the height of the great labor upsurges in the late 1880s and 1930s, issues of race and racism were subordinated to white-defined working class issues.

Organized white labor unions ignored or opposed fighting racism and supporting equality. The goal of ending Jim Crow segregation (like ending racist immigration policies) was not considered a labor issue, except by the most conscious radicals.

Class solidarity is impossible until the race issue becomes central for white workers to win their own fight. Unless that occurs, every civil and human rights gain can and will be reversed by racist backlash. Donald Trump rode that racism to win the Electoral College.

The right is growing stronger as its white supremacist base grows and other whites do nothing. These forces so far have the stronger position because of government support.

Their main concern is that African Americans will rise and go to the streets around racism and link up with other social forces. So far this is not happening. Black rebellions historically strike the greatest fear among whites and the ruling class.

Vicious Attacks and Resistance
While white people who are uneasy or even dislike the racism of Trump “accept” the system of inequality, since it does not directly impact their daily lives, the right wing uses all its levers of political and extralegal power to advance its objectives.

Attacking African-Americans’ rights, and other minorities, is a key weapon in their strategy to win whites, including white workers, to support employers and racist policies.

Trump viciously attacks Black football players and Black Lives Matter protesters because of the potential power of African Americans and the delusions of white Americans. (He cannot deport Blacks, even if some of his base wish that were possible.)

White supremacists (neofascists in ideology) cannot be defeated by centrist compromise. They only respond to the proverbial “two by four.”

Protests and African American opposition to police brutality are important actions and key to eventual change. Leon Trotsky, the Russian revolutionary, told American socialists in the 1930s that Blacks because of their position as the most oppressed section of American society, “will in any case fight better than the white workers” for emancipation.

Black Lives Matters was formed in struggle against police violence and mass incarceration of African Americans. Its full program is aimed at ending racism and winning others to its program.

Black rights and lives are under fierce attack by the capitalist system — again. It might seem with the teachers’ strikes, the #MeToo movement for women’s rights and anti-police brutality protests that the tide is possibly turning against the right. It hasn’t, so far.

Most liberals and many progressives fall into the trap of believing that elections in November 2018 and beyond are the key to stopping racist and reactionary forces. Pointing to Trump’s victory, they attack those who reject this strategy. Supporters of democratic socialism within the Democratic Party are being blamed — in advance! — for future election defeats.

The central lesson of history here and abroad is the opposite. It is not elections that cause change. They can only reflect what has been won or lost. Mass popular resistance, legal and extralegal, is how change and victories are achieved.

Martin Luther King did not ask for permission from the Democratic Party to organize mass actions against segregation. The 1963 March on Washington was aimed at the Democratic President and Congress.

Politicians and institutions respond when they feel threatened. Blacks were never considered human beings, much less citizens, before the Civil War. While slavery was abolished, and formal citizenship was granted to former slaves, real citizenship rights lasted less than two decades.

In today’s anti-immigrant climate some conservatives openly question whether the 14th Amendment clause, adopted in 1868, establishing citizenship by birth on U.S. soil should be reversed – even by presidential decree (see “Trump’s New Target: Citizenship,” by John Ganz, The New York Times, July 23, 2018, A21).

It took 80 years of popular struggles to gain back legal citizenship, which had been in name only, in the former Confederacy. Blacks could rarely run for or win elections until the 1970s. It was mass protest actions that forced politicians and officials of both major parties to shift.

Labor’s Dirty Compromise
The U.S. labor movement’s Achilles heel has been racism. It failed to understand the centrality of race. Today, not surprisingly, 10% (7% in the private sector) of workers are in unions — the lowest point since the 1920s, and expected to fall further.

Organized labor has mostly circled its wagons. With no battle plan, it is easier to blame the right or the Supreme Court.

The lesson of the 1930s was to organize mass strikes and win public support to defeat employers and force the government to pass laws recognizing labor rights (except for Blacks in the segregated South).

That dirty compromise of throwing Black workers under the bus is why the labor movement would never grow beyond its high point in the 1950s. The established union leaderships’ refusal to take on Jim Crow segregation and structural racism is a key reason for its decline.

Capital always knew it could eventually take union plants from the North to the “right to work” South. Japanese and European manufacturers saw it too, and built most of their “transplant” facilities in those states.

At a time when the number one issue of fighting the Trump regime and policies is defense of civil and human rights, much of today’s organized labor instead is in lock step with Trump on tariffs.

So long as that’s the case, it will be impossible to turn the tide. Under these conditions, is it any wonder that racism trumps class solidarity?

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