Charles, I agree that it is the bosses who do the hiring, but to say they are the only
racists in the system is naive at best. Take the phone co., for instance, 90% of
their almost all white, all male management comes from within the ranks of the
technicians. Getting promoted is a matter of the
white male foreman liking the white male technician better. The technician has a
whole lot to do with the process. Secondly, unions are still predominantly white and
male -- are you equating all union leadership with the capitalist bosses?? Calm down,
that was a rhetorical question. maggie
coleman
Charles Brown wrote:
> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/06/01 09:10PM >>>
> Yoshie asks:
>
> >>Do white workers gain _higher real wages & better social programs_ by
> practicing racism _even in the short term_?>>
>
> Yes, I think they do. Bigotry in the work place pays off -- that is why
> all those white men out there have lower unemployment rates and higher
> wages -- even in unskilled labor -- than anyone else in the labor
> market. maggie coleman
>
> ((((((((((
>
> CB: However, it is not the white workers, but the bosses who do the hiring and the
>firing which determines who is unemployed. So, the racism of the white workers does
>not directly cause black higher unemployment. It is the racism of the bosses that
>gives white workers the higher employment rate.
>
> ((((((((((
>
> Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
> > Maggie says:
> >
> > >1. I think that the age old "what's short and what's long?"
> > >question applies here.
> > >Most people (from all classes, including the working class) do not
> > >think of long
> > >term strategy -- in fact the only people I know of who think in
> > >terms of long term
> > >strategy are economists, political economists, and lefties.
> >
> >
