Word: racistly
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...control the Teamsters follow blatantly racist policies. Einar Mohn, president of the Western Conference of Teamsters in 1973, said. "It will be a couple of years before they can start having membership meetings, before we can use the farm workers' ideas in the union...I'm not sure how effective a union can be when it is composed of Mexican-Americans...as jobs become more attractive to whites, then we can build a union that can have a structure and that can negotiate with strength and have membership participation" (Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1973). Recently, the Teamsters shifted...
...circulating about, and maybe because of the outlandish number of groups involved, each with their own hierarchy of leaders, organizers, and speechmakers, there is a remarkable lack of decision-making. Everyone gets spilled onto Clemente Park, mixed up with everyone else while the ideologues scream about identity. The Anti-Racist Coalition "says the march leaders have a wrong approach." The Congress of Afrikan People is "critical of the Trotskyite and revisionist influence on the march." The Workers League and Young Socialists say "The Freedom March for Human Dignity,' by seeking to place the responsibility for racism on the working class...
...crosses the Fens and heads into downtown Boston via Boylston Street. The leafleteers scour the sidewalks and pizza parlors, distributing their literature. A little blond boy of about four chants in his mother's arms, "Who's got the money? Who makes the rules? Kids can't learn in racist schools." Suddenly the march halts. It creeps forward. There is a spasmodic jerk back. A spray of placards spumes to the pavement. All is quiet. Then it erupts...
...middle-aged man with slicked-back hair lounges outside a florist's. "The march is good, It will point out that the issue isn't racist. It's a busing issue..."He is from Dorchester and smiles and shrugs...
...young oriental man stands before a huge yellow banner covered with about 10 lines of slogans. These words were on it. "We Defend National Democratic Rights. Socialist Working Class Anti-Racist Unity Struggle." "Quite a mouthful," someone says to him. The man smiles and nods, then resumes pacing before it. He seemed to be trying to fit the banner into one frame...