BK on Identity

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Wed Mar 7 13:23:30 PST 2001


Charles Brown wrote:


>CB: Since the white workers do not do the hiring and firing, it is
>the racism of the bosses , who do, that creates discrepancies
>between white and black employment. The white workers have no
>"rational" need to be racist themselves. Any advantage can be had by
>only the bosses being racist.

So why have the printing and building trades unions been so horribly sexist and racist over the years?

Doug



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