" "Don't ever play a worker to be a fool," Jim Wright recalling his days as a steward for [FE] Local 236. " - The Long Deep Grudge by Toni Gilpin. The FE (United Farm Equipment Workers of America) was a progressive union racially integrated from the leadership in down in the mid-1930s through the mid-1950s.
The UAW used red-baiting and race-baiting to finally overcome it. Kind of like what the Democratic Party is doing to progressive movements right now.
DNC should need the quote.
I've learned a lot from a lot of people who for various reasons never went to college. School is no measure of intelligence; it just a measure of how well you can follow orders. Too many so called progressives don't seem to know this. They want to stereotype people into categories that allow them to feel more comfortable with their world views. Then they can feel better about buying a house in the "right" neighborhood with the "right" schools.
