XPost: can.politics   
   From: cama@ro.tran   
      
   On 10/10/2017 8:00 AM, Byker wrote:   
   > On 10/9/2017 6:20 PM, Cafe Racer wrote:   
   >> On Monday, October 9, 2017 at 12:25:46 PM UTC-7, Byker wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Byker sounds like a woman I worked with in 1968 in East London, at the   
   >> time of the tower block partial collapse. Ronan Point had been built   
   >> cheaply and carelessly with prefab slabs, like a house of cards.   
   >>   
   >> The collapse killed four people and injured 17.   
   >>   
   >> The Hackney Gazette printed photographs of the rescue work. My work   
   >> colleague looked at one photo and said "Oh look at all those darkies!"   
   >>   
   >> I looked closely. There appeared to be one female nurse and one male   
   >> doctor assisting the injured.   
   >>   
   >> The woman I worked with was an East Ender, barely 15 minutes away from   
   >> the tragedy.  In all the complex rescue work, all SHE could see were   
   >> "darkies".   
   >>   
   >> I told her that if her house fell on her head she might be grateful   
   >> for any doctor and any nurse --- but who knows; some bigots prefer   
   >> death to accepting the help from someone who's not white.   
   >>   
   >> Byker?   
   >   
   > Had blacks not been available (they come cheaper), then Whites would   
   > have filled the job openings...   
   >   
   >   
      
   How'd that work out with agricultural jobs here in the USA?   
      
   Oh that's right, it STILL hasn't.   
      
   Next!   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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