re: #176 GunstarGreen

“Most of them have been bred to believe that they don’t get any respect unless they run the place.”

No place is that truer than NC, where only 3% of the workforce is unionized, most of it in govt. NC has always been a “right to work” state. There is no industry left in NC whatsoever, everything having been sent overseas, so fat lot of good it did people to actually think that.

I do know, since I worked a bit w/unions in the past, that the greatest barrier to unionization in NC was the fact that Blacks were in the forefront of the last big union drives in the late ’60s, early ’70s in the mills, furniture industry, the tire plants, etc. There is no way on earth that most of the white workers were going to allow Black folks to be in leadership positions, even when they were cutting their own throats in voting down the unions.