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I’m gonna go ahead & list some “black jobs”:
Inventing the mailbox, the traffic light, the clothes dryer, the gas mask, the pacemaker, the modern toilet, providing the 1st immortalized cell line, providing free labor for centuries to build the US, and so many more “jobs.”
People from the past (and evidently the present) defined Black jobs as the jobs white workers did not want. Want to know how Black workers overcame (and must overcome) racist assumptions? By organizing. My book about this history and our present: https://t.co/IYu33qjTxO
moderator: what are your views on the economy?
joe biden: i. well i uh. [nose starts bleeding] hmm.
donald trump: we’re gonna find and kill the grinch. mark my words. we are gonna use the big guns. it’s gonna be something folks
Watching this debate feels like being a parent watching a kid at his first piano recital. Except the kid is 81 and if he misses a note, maybe there’s just not America anymore -JT