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Racism in America has been from day one tied in with slavery, and wage slavery. African Americans were separated not only by the lever of racism, but also by their roles as slaves. And while the Civil War to some extent freed African Americans from the bondage of slavery - it did not remove from this country the spectre their racial identification as slaves carried nor, and equally important, did it destroy the cultural bedrock from which the idea of slave labor sprang form in the Confederacy.
This was a deep structural problem in the Constitution - giving the slave states - and by turn, their aristocratic/anti-democratic elites - weighted political advantage with more populace, and primarily Free states. Without giving these rich, racist elites this cherry the Union would not have happened. It was a problem from day one that festered until the Civil War eliminated the slavery, but left the structural forms in the US government to allow small elites to overpower democratic functions. This has only gotten more
They used to say what was good for General Motors is good for America. Now we read of the "death of the American Auto industry". Really? While Detroit may be a dying city, and teh Auto Unions a mere shadow of what they once were - the Ameican auto industry is thriving - in the former Confederacy - where the culture that once freely bought and sold humans no offers up to the automakers of the world a poor, increasingly worker rights denied ("right to work") States population. Republican's wave the USA flag - but then turn and sell American workers off to the highest, usually foreign, capital and industrial interests as the new cheap labor - the New Slavery. Where they devise laws to limit unions, wages, workers rights - in essence recreate the old Slave Class in function if not form.
Or take for example the "rah-rah America!" Repunlicans selling out one of the top American industustrial giants - Boeing - a company that won world wars, maintains out military and put us on the moon - to Airbus for a few dollars in their pockets and the promise of "cheap labor".
http://www.reuters.com/article/2…
While Boeing pays it's high skilled workers well, the Republicans offer a rival foreign firm tax breaks, promise workers who won't ask for the EXACT SAME RIGHTS that Airbus employees in Europe get.
Notice the growth of US manufacturing in the South - in "Right To Work" states -all former slave states - where once again the scions of the South sell out to the highest bidders to cheapen other human beings to line their pockets with dirty filthy lucre.The culture of the South along with the deep structural components of the original compromise to form the Union are still with us and will doom us until we wake up.
All this racist bullshit is also remnants of the facts that one time one group of small, greedy fucks sold other human beings. And they're still doing it - cheapening their fellow citizens and selling them off to the highest bidder, and stashing the money in the Caymans.