The first Labor Day was held in 1882. Its origins stem from the desire of the Central Labor Union to create a holiday for workers. It became a federal holiday in 1894.This seems innocent on the surface and many coons and House Negroes will be satisfied with this definition but let's dig a little deeper and use our mind.
When did the Civil War end?
Answer - 1865
When did Reconstruction end?
Answer 1877
When did Jim Crow laws begin?
Answer: When Reconstruction ended
Now if the first Labor day was held in 1882 as a holiday for Union workers, what color were the union workers?
The answer is white. Union workers were white males.
This is from the National Archives webpage:
Whites wanted Blacks to march and rally with them (sound familiar?) but they did not want Blacks in their unions. Whites formed unions and kept Blacks out because they wanted to preserve their way of life and in their eyes, Black people had no place in their way of life. Labor Day was established as a holiday for White workers just like the Constitution was originally established as the founding document for white American society.
The decline in the relative position of African Americans vis à vis organized labor can also be seen in the railroad industry. During the Great Strike of 1877, for instance, rallies and marches in St. Louis, Louisville, and other cities brought together white and black workers in support of the common rights of workingmen. By 1894 Eugene Debs, leader of the American Railway Union in a strike against the Pullman Company, was unable to convince members of his union to accept black railroaders. Blacks in turn served as strikebreakers for the Pullman Company and for the owners of Chicago meatpacking companies against whom stockyard workers struck in sympathy with the Pullman Company employees
I'm sure this will not stop most of you from going out and participating in this holiday. It is not your fault that from a mental perspective, you are still a slave. But if you have knowledge brought to you and you receive it and continue to celebrate American holidays and bathe in internet buffoonery then it is your fault and you deserve whatever you get in life.
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