I can't help but wonder how many black construction workers in South Carolina and other blacks in the general population would have gotten some benefit from the $754 million which Daimler would have spent in South Carolina had they decided to build there. Or, how many of the 3,300 jobs at the proposed plant would have gone to black workers. Whatever the economic benefit of having such a plant built and operating in the state, it certainly can't compare to the benefit gained from removing a piece of cloth from a flag pole. Can it?
No kidding. Not to mention the jobs created as the service industry expands to fulfill the needs of the plant. Restaurants, hotels for travelling employees, maintenance, ongoing physical plant improvement, janitorial, variety stores, you name it. And don't forget that auto factories tend to have babies; meaning locally based feeder plants for parts and operating supplies.
For some perspective, the Navistar truck factory in my home town (Chatham, Ontario) just announced it was closing. Roughly 1000 people out of work for good was the last figure I saw. The bigger picture, though, is the fact that it is estimated (and the plant's been there for like 70 years so there's apparantly data to back this up) that for every one person Navistar employed three locals were employed to support or sell to the factory. So 1,000 jobs becomes 4,000. The plant closing will be like a body slam to the city (only 35,000 pop.).
For the life of me I just can't figure out how they (NAACP) can continue to get away with this cr*p, other than the intimidation and ridicule I mention above.