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Labor Day is mostly a piss poor American version of the May Day's around the world that celebrate the Hay Market Riot in Chicago. But at least it mostly lets the working class have the day off. One thing that almost never gets mentioned is another working class altogether. The slave population. What's happening right now in Florida should be inconceivable. It is now illegal to teach the facts of slavery without balancing that with the "facts" of slaves saving money and learning trades. If that was such a common thing then why are we only hearing about it now? That's because it was not a common thing. You know what was common? Slavery. [Esquire]
via NPS Ethnography: African American Heritage & Ethnography
Why are these stories important? Because racism is used to keep the electoral power down among people of color across the US. Even a North Carolina Supreme Court Justice (who happens to be black) must defend herself from a state investigation of whether or not it was proper for her to answer a question that was asked of her. [CNN]
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The Guardian continues to do a better job of covering Wisconsin politics than the locals. The racism looks like it might be a little more under the surface. Stick a finger in the ground and it comes bubbling up crude. There are two organizations that are fighting over elections in Wisconsin and both of them are run by Republicans. The difference is that Keep Our Republic is attempting to educate voters on how elections actually work and why they are safe. North of 29 not only spreads as many lies as they can but even their name is racist. There are plenty of natives up there but these aren't the kind of people who admit that natives and citizens and were here first. But pretty much all the cities with the concentration of black, brown and Asian people live south of 29. The majority the total number of people in the state also live below 29. [Guardian]
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