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No holds barred: AFL-CIO's Trumka calls out racial bias against Obama in membership

by: Pam Spaulding

Wed Oct 08, 2008 at 20:00:00 PM EDT


AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Richard Trumka's recently gave a speech to the recent USW convention, and his powerful words spoke directly to those "hard working white Americans" who cannot move beyond their fears to vote for Barack Obama. He does not hold back in terms of challenging peoples' biases, he assigns responsibility to those of us who ignore -- or are in denial about -- the bigotry out there that makes people vote against their own interests.

I went back home to vote in Nemacolin and I ran into a woman I'd known for years. She was active in Democratic politics when I was still in grade school. We got to talking and I asked if she'd made up her mind who she was supporting and she said: "Oh absolutely, I'm voting for Hillary, there's no way I'd ever vote for Obama."  Well, why's that?

"Because he's a Muslim."

I told her, "That's not true -- he's as much a Christian as you and me, so what if he's muslim."

Then she shook her head and said, "He won't wear an American flag pin."

I don't have one on and neither do you.

But, "C'mon, he wears one plenty of times. He just says it takes more than wearing a flag pin to be patriotic."

"Well, I just don't trust him."

Why is that?

Her voice dropped just a bit: "Because he's black." I said, "Look around. Nemacolin's a dying town. There're no jobs here. Kids are moving away because there's no future here. And here's a man, Barack Obama, who's going to fight for people like us and you won't vote for him because of the color of his skin."

Brothers and sisters, we can't tap dance around the fact that there are a lot of folks out there just like that woman.

A lot of them are good union people; they just can't get past this idea that there's something wrong with voting for a black man. Well, those of us who know better can't afford to look the other way. I'm not one for quoting dead philosophers, but back in the 1700s, Edmund Burke said: "All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good people to do nothing."

Well, there's no evil that's inflicted more pain and more suffering than racism -- and it's something we in the labor movement have a special responsibility to challenge. It's our special responsibility because we know, better than anyone else, how racism is used to divide working people.

We've seen how companies set worker against worker -- how they throw whites a few extra crumbs off the table - and how we all end up  losing.  But we've seen something else, too. We've seen that when we cross that color line and stand together no one can keep us down.

That's why the CIO was created. That's why industrial unions were the first to stand up against lynching and segregation.

People need to know that it was the Steel Workers Organizing Committee -- this union -- that was founded on the principal of organizing all workers without regard to race.

The entire transcript is here.
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yeah!
How refreshing!  And also how sad that this is the first head-on and frank such speech since Obama was nominated.  This speech shouldn't be refreshing, it should be "oh, another speech about how stupid and self-defeating racism is.  haven't we explored that one till we're blue in the face already?"  In other words, I am so happy to hear him make this speech, and so frustrated that his is the forst of its sort I've heard.  I am disappointed that Hillary, at least, hasn't stepped up to the plate (in a public way, anyways) and addressed racism publicly too.

Lurleen on Twitter

Ditto, Yeah!
I agree. Both encouraging that he's gone there, and discouraging that too few others have gone with him.

[ Parent ]
Passionate
That was one hell of a passionate speech.  Hats off!

Excellent speech
I was shocked to see these new signs today when picking up my kids:

http://mail.google.com/mail/?u...

http://mail.google.com/mail/?u...


"It goes on one at a time, it starts when you care to act, it starts when you do it again after they said no, it starts when you say We and know who you mean, and each day you mean one more."


This video...
...brought tears to my eyes when I saw it last week.  

Just stunning.

I wish more people would speak so loudly and clearly about the racist issue in this election.

Maybe it's because I'm a Southern liberal, and we see these things in a particular way, but dammit, I'm so sick of my fellow white people saying dumb sh*t about how Obama is going to "give blacks preferential treatment" or whatever else.

Insanity.


http://breakthterror.blogspot.com


That fear isn't entirely unfounded
They're just imagining a world where they receive the spoils of someone else's entitlement. All of a sudden skin privilege is a bad, bad thing when you're confronted with how well it always worked in your favor. They're delusional, but they certainly can't say racism doesn't exist now that their fears are exposed. Reverse racism is their worst nightmare because it contradicts the PROPER flow of prejudice.

[ Parent ]
Here in Colorado, we are not a 'right to work state'
  But we have an amendment on the ballot that will make Colorado a right to work state, #47, and I pray people don't fall for the conservative line of BS.

 Conservatives have been Union busting since Reagan.  Florida is a right to work state and look what happened to the pay workers recieve.  People who say unions are bad for America need to look what they really stand for.

 I loved the way this guy delivered this, it came from his heart.

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


Obama: the real maverick.
Barack Obama is the real maverick.  Neither John McCain nor Sarah Palin would deserve that status.

Obama is defying those who are for "traditional values", like having marriage be only for a union of a man and a woman, and having the notion that the whole world should be governed by white Christian males.


Joe Biden
I loved his comment yesterday.

John McCain is NOT a maverick. He's a sidekick.


You can lead a fool to knowledge, but you can't make him think.  

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Take a look at this gem....
Here's a video of the type of people that go to InSane McCain/Sarah Ping Pong Palin speech rallies.  Caution: explicit stupidity.

http://bloggerinterrupted.com/...


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