Y'all made Jimmy Kimmel cry.
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He would send out all of his huwyte supremacis followers to capture the poor, innocent BLACK people and force them to work and show them how to build things, like when those evil RethugliKKKans had slavery before!
(Please ignore how blacks were never used for major infrastructure projects in the antebellum period, and afterwards every railroad quickly realized that importing Irish and Chinese was preferable to trying to get blacks to work.)
I thought some worked on railroads but yes lots of Chinese and Irish. Although you saying that reminds me of the opening of Blazing saddles. Or at the end when the townspeople say “the niggers and chinks can stay, but no Irish…,,….ok the Irish too”.
But some black people believe this nonsense yet arent so afraid they try to. Goes to show when you make it your business to be an oppressed victim, you will find oppression in abundance
There's a book called Night Comes to the Cumberlands that has first-hand accounts of some of the antics that black railroad workers got up to. Spoiler: drugs and violence.
Gotcha. Didn’t doubt you and I’ll add that to the many books I need to read.
Didn't think you doubted me, Smitty, I just wanted to throw another book on your To Be Read pile. :P