Now Playing - Paul Lemmon On Labor Unions

note: h/t to Ezra Klein for this.

I was conflicted tonight, as to whether to post this video, or post the Michael Richard (Kramer) vids. Of course Richard is all over the news, as are muslims on planes. And here in Michigan we just lost affirmative action. So it seems an appropriate time to do a piece on racism.

(and yes, I do feel that the muslim incident can be classified as racism, because if they had been white muslims wearing the same clothes and doing the same things, no one would have cared)

But …. Thanksgiving approaches, and people keep talking about giving thanks, so I am going to focus on something I’m thankful for.

I’ll get Michael Richard some other day. Racism never goes out of style.

“Don’t ever let anyone tell you that you don’t need a labor union. Don’t ever let anyone tell you that.” –C.G. Wetenhall, my grandpa

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