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In reply to the discussion: Awaiting Trump's coal comeback, miners reject retraining [View all]GaryCnf
(1,399 posts)my grandparents were part of the "Millions of African Americans [who] moved to the cities for jobs," (albeit well before WWII) whose experiences you have invoked to support your attack on working people, let me help you with a couple of things.
First, "Emancipation" notwithstanding, those fine "southern farming" jobs my grandparents left behind were nothing more than extensions of slavery. They didn't leave because of "mechanization." They left because they were no better off than before the Civil War. They moved to the city because they believed the lie that their lives would be better there. If anything, what happened to them puts the lie to the patronizing BS line that working people would be just fine if they would only make changes.
Second, even assuming that your little fantasy about how black workers improved their lives by moving to the cities were true, that isn't what you are demanding of today's workers. You're demanding that they "move to the cities" (which I will take as euphemism for "make changes in their lives" that will make their lives dramatically worse AND BE HAPPY ABOUT IT.