[higgmeister]

That picture is so sad. White people suffering from poverty.

People today with a two week memory should see pictures like that. History is being destroyed. Thanks for posting that.

Another FReeper posted one last year of a poor white family picking cotton.

This is a relative of mine from 1910 in the Bessie Coal Mine.   He was 14 years old in this picture.   He later died in a mine cave in at the age of 31 and left a pregnant wife.   Show me the "White Privilege."

Those are heavy greese buckets. He was a " a 'greaser' on the tipple", which is the device that tips the coal cars over to empty them when they come out of the ground.

Here he is with his coworkers.

The pictures are from https://www.shorpy.com/ and are from the archives of the "Library of Congress."

[frank ballenger]

Thanks for the old pictures link.
Sorry, my laptop can’t get the family ones to show. Don’t know why.

Thanks anyway.
Ridiculous that new false story line is all the white people sat in parlors relaxing all day while downtrodden black people built America.

Andrew Carnegie was a child laborer for years before building his wealth-—without affirmative action, special loan money for minorities and set asides.

Charles Bronson in real life was a coal mine laborer as a youngster and ran away to get back home where his father was furious and said “Get back to the mine. I got paid good money to sell you to them.” Acting came much later.