Who else should be added to this list? (This was chrono. Not based on badassedness.)
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Thanks for the clarification. 😀👍
I kinda wondered if that was what you were doing, just seemed an odd thing, glad to hear.
Agreed. Black folk in general were treated almost worse in some cases because of how they were viewed in the north, correct.
Interesting historical side note, among other minorities, the Irish, Italian and Chinese imigrants in some cases were treated even worse, and were denied work where blacks were allowed. Discrimination was and is not the sole dominion of the African American.
Documented cases of 5 year Olds working in factories fixing machinery as they were the only ones who would fit in tight spaces.
If something jammed, send in the kid, and it's their fault for losing a hand when it started up again, they should have gotten out of the way quicker when it fired up.
In some unsubstantiated letters, unfortunate worker child bodies were left in the gearworks until next shutdown so as to not stop production.
Oh I'm fully aware of all that. It's one of the reasons I can't stand hearing about black people whining about racism and slavery. Irish and Italians had it just as bad, if not worse in most cases up until around WW II. Heck, on the census Irish and Italians had their own designation for several decades since they were considered "lesser whites".
And don't even get me started on the kids. As I said, the Civil War/Industrial revolution North were essentially what the left is now. A bunch of virtue signaling hypocrites who wanted to claim the moral and ethical high ground on everything without offering any solutions while ignoring any kind of travesty that didn't fit their world view.
Agreed. Bad shape at the time. Hate that we've regressed back into that in the public forum. Goes to show we never got rid of that crap.
I didn notice the irony that we are now more like the confederates this time around....less the slavery and discrimination. We're actually the inclusive, more accepting side by a LOT.