Rednecks For Black Lives.

I struggled which forum to placed this, because the subject matter can spark much heated discussions not usual for this fourm, however if ever it goes South I'm asking the mods not to eject it, just move it to the Mudpit if it became too mudpittish.

Ok so why are you seeing this,?? I chanced upon a vid, with the exact title as above, so I kliked, I kinda knew were it might go, until I came upon some interesting history, unknown to me, that of a miners rebellion in Appalachia in the early 1900.
Yes I've known of earlier collusions between Black enslaved and indentured servants, plotting and escaping together, and all that came to a head in Becon's Rebellion , through planters politics, of trying to crush first nation's fight to keep the intruders at bay.

The events in Jamestown were alarming to the planter elite, who were deeply fearful of the multiracial alliance of [indentured servants] and slaves. Word of Bacon’s Rebellion spread far and wide, and several more uprisings of a similar type followed. In an effort to protect their superior status and economic position, the planters shifted their strategy for maintaining dominance. They abandoned their heavy reliance on indentured servants in favor of the importation of more black slaves.
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The Blair Mountain miners revolt in 1920s

Most of the time when class solidarity is discussed, it is thought of in a way where class consciousness supersedes or wipes away other forms of consciousness such as racial or ethnic ones. However, when one digs into the history of the battle, it is obvious that class solidarity did not erase racial or ethnic issues. Instead, union organizers and officials worked diligently to address the civil struggles of Black miners.

For instance, Black miners served in a wide range of union political positions, and if the union would not have recognized this and other fundamental concerns of Black civil struggles, they would have had a much harder time uniting with Black miners. This does not mean that Black miners did not still face significant discrimination, but there was a large amount of progress as many racial lines were crossed.
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Pls klik^^ here to view the vid that inspired this this thread.

a reply to: Spider879

Edited since you included links. Yes, Blair Mountain was the big one.

There was a whole series of miner labor conflicts in that region. It was pretty grim conditions.

When seeing the title I though this was a new movement to challenge Black Live Matter that actually cared about Black lives instead of a rally call to burn down the cities. Good to see there is a history to it.

I see no reason for this to go 'mudpittish'.
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