( 128 ) Black Rights/White Wrongs- Blacks freed from slavery are conscripted into “debt servitude” as
sharecroppers, from which they can never get free, since the planta-
tion owner forces them to buy goods he provides, at higher prices,
and weighs the cotton they produce himself at the end of the season,
cheating them, so that at the end of each year they owe more than
before. - Blacks are not permitted, or only permitted to a far lesser extent, to stake
their claim on lands opened up by the settling of the West. (This illus-
trates the complexities of racial exploitation, since had they been allowed
to do so, they would, of course, have been participating in the exploita-
tion of Native Americans.) - Male Chinese immigrants are forced to pay a head- tax for admission
into the United States at a time when no such tax is imposed on white
immigrants. - Black children are given an inferior education by state governments, with
most of the resources going to white children. - Blacks are given higher sentences than whites for comparable crimes, so
that they can supply a population of convict lease labor in the South. - Black enterprises are not permitted access to white markets.
- Black enterprises are burned down or otherwise illicitly driven out of
business by white competitors. - Blacks pay higher rent in the ghettos for housing.
- Blacks pay more for inferior goods in the ghettos.
- White workers refuse to admit blacks into their unions.
- Blacks, Mexican Americans, and Asian immigrants hired in jobs are paid
less than white workers would be. - Blacks, Mexican Americans, and Asian immigrants hired in jobs are not
promoted or are promoted at slower rates and to lower levels than whites
with comparable credentials. - Black candidates with superior credentials are turned down in favor of
white candidates. - Black candidates with inferior credentials are turned down in favor of
white candidates, when the reason blacks’ credentials are inferior is that
they have had poorer schooling and poorer opportunities at every step of
the way than they would have had if they were white. - Black performers are forced to sign contracts on worse terms than white
performers because they have no alternative non- racist company to give
them a better deal. - Black performers sign contracts with worse terms because they are not
sufficiently educated to know better, and a history of racism explains
their lack of the relevant knowledge.
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