Gone With The Wind & The 2016 Election (Raise The Wage!)

‪#‎RaiseTheWage‬

"GONE WITH THE WIND" & THE 2016 ELECTION:

SLAVERY & LOW WAGES IN THE 21ST CENTURY.

AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT & LOW WAGES = SLAVERY.

DEMOCRATS MUST ELIMINATE THIS CONTRIBUTION TO POVERTY.

On a late Friday night I chose to watch "Gone With The Wind" on television.

I'm a BLACK Woman, whose native home is Brooklyn, NY however I currently reside in the deep South and I'm watching a film which celebrates SLAVERY.

The BLACK Actors in "Gone With The Wind" were often highly Criticized for appearing in this film.

But when those BLACK Actors were questioned as to why they chose to appear in "Gone With The Wind", they quickly responded:
"I would rather play a Maid and earn $700.00 a week, instead of working as a Maid and only earn $7.00 a week."

***FYI: I'm referring to 1930's Wages.

Many 21st century GOP Supporters still long for those days when the CONFEDERACY ruled not only the South, but also the Federal Government.

You see this explains why many WHITE, Southern Republican lawmakers still see absolutely NOTHING wrong with passing Legislation to continue AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT in Southern states.

Longing for those days when the CONFEDERACY ruled the South and Federal Government also explains why many WHITE, Southern Republican lawmakers still see absolutely NOTHING wrong with passing Legislation to continue Paying Workers in those regions extremely LOW WAGES.

AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT and LOW WAGES = SLAVERY.

AT -WILL EMPLOYMENT gives Employers in Southern states the LEGAL Authority to Terminate Employees at will without Cause.

LOW WAGES gives Employers in Southern states the LEGAL Authority to Force Employees to work like a dog for Pennies.

Of course the Majority of the Workers in Southern states employed as AT-WILL EMPLOYEES are BLACK and LATINO citizens.
Of course the Majority of the Workers in Southern states earning LOW WAGES are BLACK and LATINO citizens.

The "Good Ole' South" is what many WHITE, Southern Republican lawmakers & Republican Voters aim for when they pass Legislation or go to the Polls on Election day.

The 2016 U.S. Presidential Election is fast approaching us.

I suggest DEMOCRATS put on their climbing gear and be steadfastly Determined to eliminate all or most Barriers to pulling People up out of POVERTY in the United States.

Let's start with combating Legislation which allows AT-WILL EMPLOYMENT and LOW WAGES.

#RaiseTheWage

It's Time To RAISE THE WAGE in the United States!

It's Time For INCOME EQUALITY in the United States!

Sources: Warner Bros; Youtube

GOP Accepted Black Voters First! Not Racist "Dixiecrats"

When Did Blacks Start Voting Democratic?

For how long have the Democrats garnered the black vote? Certainly there was a point during the last century when a majority of blacks started supporting the Democrats rather than Republicans.

What has been the voting pattern and what happened to change that pattern?

Answer:

There was a big move to Democratic voting in Franklin D. Roosevelt's administration, and another in Lyndon B. Johnson's.

Blacks mostly voted Republican from after the Civil War and through the early part of the 20th century. That's not surprising when one considers that Abraham Lincoln was the first Republican president, and the white, segregationist politicians who governed Southern states in those days were Democrats.

The Democratic Party didn't welcome blacks then, and it wasn't until 1924 that blacks were even permitted to attend Democratic conventions in any official capacity. Most blacks lived in the South, where they were mostly prevented from voting at all.




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Deep South Still Isn't Ready To Lead Nation...No Sidewalks, No Innovation, Its Embarassing!

Banking boomtown loses one of its biggest players. Charlotte, N.C. is the country's second largest banking center, but the recent failure of Wachovia has the entire city bracing for fallout from thousands of executive-level layoffs. NBC's Kerry Sanders reports.

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A changing, more urbanized South (In Your Dreams!)


You know the images that say "Southern." Kudzu on a red clay bank. A sharecropper's shack abandoned in a field of cotton (or tobacco). Moonshiners vrooming down country roads.

That iconography that has embedded itself in our Southern souls is rural. Even Southern food is the food of rural poverty - the pig parts, greens, sweet potatoes, and corn in multiple manifestations (including distilled into a jug).

Yet a group of Southern leaders and thinkers who gathered last weekend at Davidson College outside Charlotte heard experts describe a region that has become more urban than rural.

Mindsets, though, change more slowly than demographics.

The group was pulled together by a nonpartisan nonprofit group, the Center for a Better South, based in Charleston, for the purpose of devising an Agenda for a Better South - major areas on which Southern leaders should concentrate their efforts. The agenda, still in drafting stages, is to be released in the coming week.

Of course, we talked about education, poverty, race relations, taxes and crime, among other issues. No self-respecting group of "progressives" would otherwise. The agenda's goals are ambitious and admirable. One example, from the draft: To improve health, "each Southern state should increase life expectancy to levels on par with Canada."

Achieving the goals would make this region safer, smarter and healthier. So this isn't a critique of the goal-setting (a process I had to miss). However, I found some of the other topics more thought-provoking.

The South is urbanizing, its demographics changing.

Ferrel Guillory, director of UNC Chapel Hill's Program on Public Life, discussed how in-migration to the South is enriching education and income levels, and for blacks as well as whites.

People are flowing into major metro areas: "The South has shifted from an agrarian to a metropolitan society."

I think much of the Southern leadership infrastructure still puts rural problems ahead of urban ones. Guillory illustrated this: He's been studying South Carolina's poverty-ridden Interstate 95 corridor. Yet, he pointed out, in South Carolina more distressed people live in the city of Columbia than in the I-95 region.

"We're looking at place-based solutions," Guillory said. Instead, maybe we should just focus on people in need, urban or rural.

Should the South forget "Leading"?

Jay Barth of Hendrix College in Conway, Ark., dared ask this. He thinks Southern progress is hindered by several qualities, such as an inability to embrace diversity, including race, ethnicity and sexual orientation.

Another hindrance, he said, is the South's increasing suburbanization. Much of its 20th-century growth has been suburban, unlike the 19th- and early 20th-century growth in the cities of the North.

Suburbanization allows class and race separation to continue, Barth said, and lets suburban residents disconnect from the larger metro region.

In a similar vein, former U.S. Rep. Glen Browder from Alabama was blunt about how the rest of the world views the South. If you think it's a problem that people see an invisible D(emocrat) or R(epublican) behind your name, he said, realize that Southerners have "an invisible S."

"Our brand is broken," he said. "It's tainted."

"Quit dreaming about leading the nation," he advised. Instead, concentrate on improving your state.

Yet from all this emerged no visions that directly confront an urbanizing region. Had I been in the goal-setting, I'd have pushed for one to reduce vehicle travel, for environmental and wellness reasons, or to openly advocate more money for transit.

Old images die hard. Those sepia-tinted memories of mules and music remain powerful for many Southerners. Somehow, the newer image of a minivan in the Target parking lot hasn't embedded itself in anyone's soul - and isn't likely to.



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Sources: McClatchy Newspapers, Charlotte Observer, MSNBC, Wikipedia, Google Maps