Note to Anyone with a Grievance:
Stop likening your struggle to the Civil Rights movement. It demeans this country's moral journey.
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January 2007: Sweet fancy Moses, Alex got engaged! Also, alphabet.
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I kind of agree, but I also believe that worker's rights are part of civil rights, and that Unions and Workers rights were part of what gave us a vibrant middle class, actual upward social mobility, and the position as a country to even have a successful Civil Rights movement.
Also, this statement is completely true... “This parallels what Dr. King was doing in Memphis when he was killed,” said the Rev. Eric Lee, chief operating officer of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Los Angeles. “He was speaking out on behalf of African-American sanitation workers, who had poor wages and poor working conditions, and it’s the same thing for security officers here.”
It is very little discussed (because it doesn't fit the tidy narrative we like to keep about him) but for the last few years of his life King had moved on from basic Civil Rights and began speaking out more and more with an anti-Corporate/Megacorp/Consumerism sentiment.
A very important part of our country's moral journey was unionization, the end of child labor, and the institution of the 40 hour work week and the minimum wage. You're extremely remiss to forget that.
Hmm... you make a convincing argument.
I had a more narrow view of civil rights in mind (13-15th amendments, VRA, end of segregation) and hadn't stopped to consider labor reform. We should throw in the suffrage movement as well, while we're at it.
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