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Skans » 14 Feb 2023, 3:52 pm » wrote: ↑

14 Feb 2023, 3:52 pm

Like what? Where are they going to go? This view is not applicable for those times. It's barely applicable today. I mean, it sounds great on paper, but in reality, it isn't realistic. 

The fact is, they were completely unskilled.  Many tried to work their own land.  Most weren't very good at it.  Back then, it was survival of the fittest.  They were FREE.  Blacks were FREE only through the huge amount of human capital and monetary capital expended and wasted through war to free them. 

Sol were th3e whites. They white laborers were dumb as hell also. They had no skills. No education. No real talent. If there was another place for them to work, they would have gone there, instead of getting killed in riots because the black cheap labor force was a threat. 

They could choose to live and work elsewhere, if others would pay them more. 

No. They couldn't. There was either get for **** or get paid for **** across the street...or go across to some other state and get paid ****. 

Minimum wage wasn't a thing back then.  Whites did not owe Blacks anything after they sacrificed so many lives and so much money to free them.
There was all kinds of exploitation back then. Children were exploited.  Women were exploited.  Immigrants were exploited.  White trash was exploited.  The fact remains, this nation, the USofA was not built on the backs of slaves.  And, no one living today benefited from slave labor.  Not at all.

Yes, but the blacks usually got the work because they weren't allowed to unionize or receive equal pay.