Slavery enslaved the poor white farmers almost as much as it did the black slaves themselves. The white farmer was thrown into competition with the cheapest form of labor at the time, slave labor, and so lived only a little better than the slave himself. What kept white farmers from realizing this and fighting for an end to slavery by uniting with the slaves and opposing the plantation owners was the ideology of racism. But this recognition of the economic basis of unity between poor blacks and whites in the South attracted most black intellectuals in the US to the Communist Party during the period 1930-1960. We must demand that it be continued, and strengthened, but in an anti-racist way.
Racism hurts white workers as well as minorities.
Nationalism prevents any multi-racial fightback against racist attacks, like Affirmative Action. Most of all, Get rid of capitalism, which breeds all these horrors. Grover Furr February 1995 Return to Table of Contents, Grover Furr's Politics and Social Issues Page.