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It is true that many people have attributed a wide range issues to it, on offentimes shaky reasoning, but there are also very clear examples of codified rules a
by missedthecue 6y ago
It is true that many people have attributed a wide range issues to it, on offentimes shaky reasoning, but there are also very clear examples of codified rules and laws keeping minority races down, for instance the minimum wage.
- theonlybutlet 6y agoThe minimum wage keeps poor people down. That doesn't make it systemically racist.
- missedthecue 6y agoIt was first implemented locally in the reconstruction era south to keep blacks from competing with white labor. Later, in the 1920s, African Americans had a higher rate of employment than White Americans! But after the federal minimum wage passed, their economic power was destroyed and has yet to recover. Today, most people don't consider it as having anything to do with race, but when it was first put on the books, it was specifically designed to hurt them.