I am almost finished assembling a database of union
election cases where an employer or union used inflammatory racial appeals.
Yesterday, I came across a case from 1961 that affords me
(and maybe you) perspective as to where America stands today on the timeline of
race relations.
This is from the judge who ruled that the employer violated
the rights of workers, and interfered with the election, by playing the race
card during the company’s anti-union campaign. I now quote:
There are large areas and many localities in this country
where those of Anglo-Saxon stock regard themselves as an elite segment of
society with the same arrogance and as little reason as Hitler so regarded
Nordics. I cannot read into Guthrie’s statement that he would hire a “nigger,
cajun, wop or whatnot” an expression of dedication to principles of democracy
or fair employment practices. It was, rather, a direct threat that the
employees would suffer enforced association with persons of supposedly inferior
origins if they accepted the Union and the falsity of the premise does not
negate the threat.
The photo is
President-elect Trump with Farron Tilly, an avowed white supremacist who, while
interviewed at a Fayetteville, NC rally for Trump, said that he blamed the lack
of work on immigrants and added, “I hate everybody the same, so I’ll never be
racist.”
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