Posted on 12/17/2012 1:52:23 PM PST by Sub-Driver
MSNBC Host: Right to Work Came From 'Segregationist White Supremacist South' By Elizabeth Harrington December 17, 2012
(CNSNews.com) – MSNBC’s Chris Hayes said on Sunday he is “uncomfortable” using the phrase “right-to-work” because it has its origins in the “segregationist white supremacist south.”
“I’m not going to use the phrase [right to work] that is commonly used because it is such a ridiculous—let me just give people a little bit of history here,” Hayes said on his show, “Up With Chris Hayes.” He made the comment in connection with Michigan’s new right-to-work law.
“The phrase is coined by a guy by the name of Vance Muse, who is an oil industry lobbyist in Houston, Texas in the 1930s who is a white supremacist and segregationist, who -- that’s what the term was first brought into use, to fight against unions as sites of forced racial integration,” he said.
“The origin of this movement is an origin of the movement of the segregationist white supremacist south against the labor union as a site of forced racial integration.”
“That’s the genesis of this, just so you understand where this phrase comes from and why I’m uncomfortable calling it by what it is,” Hayes added.
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The history is actually almost completely the reverse.
Yep, all them crackers with mirrored sunglasses and bubba-q stains on their shirt fronts telling folks they shouldn’t have to pay to work.
Maybe he’s just a confused moron, like Elmer Fudd who had trouble with ‘r’ words. He thought ‘right to work’ was ‘white to work’.
>>to fight against unions as sites of forced racial integration
From what I know of union history, they got Congress to pass laws to protect the membership from “cheap negro labor”.
If anything, RTW is an attempt to allow blacks to work right alongside whites.
Maybe he’s just a confused moron, like Elmer Fudd who had trouble with ‘r’ words. He thought ‘right to work’ was ‘white to work’.
Chris Hayes and Rachel Madow are the same person. They just do the hair differently and get two shows out of one weirdo.
Just one example, from the executive summary of Cato Institute briefing paper #17 on the Davis-Bacon act:
“The Davis-Bacon Act, which requires that federal construction contractors pay their workers “prevailing wages,” was passed by Congress in 1931 with the intent of favoring white workers who belonged to white-only unions over non-unionized black workers. The act continues to have discriminatory effects today by favoring disproportionately white, skilled and unionized construction workers over disproportionately black, unskilled and non-unionized construction workers. Because Davis-Bacon was passed with discriminatory intent and continues to have discriminatory effects, its enforcement violates the Constitution’s guarantee of equal protection of the law.”
As you correctly point out, a know-it-all liberal once again gets things exactly bassackwards.
Funny...
In most cases, the government supported labor laws were intended to keep “colored labor” from under pricing “white labor”.
...the 'holy grail' of your Democrat party?
Founded by a white racist woman who thought too many Blacks were being born.
...killing more Blacks on a daily basis than the KKK could ever imagine!
good frickin’ grief. ..........I really hate these evil sobs
Very Orwellian. Shroud the truth by propagating a lie that is exactly 180 degrees away from it.
Can’t we just change the name of his show to “Up Chris Hayes”?
Of course it’s the reverse. What would he say about the Mississippi “Black” Code.
...which was also Democratically-Controled.
Geez.
Iced tea came from the south too - and cotton. I assume this liberal hater will pick and choose...
Nah, she’s got more testosterone.
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