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The minimum wage keeps poor people down. That doesn't make it systemically racist.
by theonlybutlet 5y ago
The minimum wage keeps poor people down. That doesn't make it systemically racist.
- missedthecue 5y 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.