Under Jim Crow, business leaders sometimes complained that the system of separate bathrooms, waterfountains, and waiting rooms was losing money. But they were afraid of white supremacist terrorists (and their fans in legislatures) so they lost money to keep them happy. - ThreadSky

victorerikray.bsky.social • 76 days ago

Under Jim Crow, business leaders sometimes complained that the system of separate bathrooms, waterfountains, and waiting rooms was losing money. But they were afraid of white supremacist terrorists (and their fans in legislatures) so they lost money to keep them happy.

Reposted from Frankie Huang 黄碧赤

I think businesses’ willingness to lose money for the sake of bigotry gets underestimated by a lot of people

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tulapetals.bsky.social•71 days ago

Also why I had trouble finding my first job in Portland late 90s. I thought the racist influence was gone, but I was absolutely wrong. Only the Ethiopian restaurant and the adventist health food store people(which was never hiring) would even look at me. Even the hippies.

stealmyposts.bsky.social•75 days ago

also considering how sears magazine undercut all the upcharging by local stores to black folk, thanks to a public US Post Office.

tbapple.bsky.social•76 days ago

The entire decades long national push for diversity is driven by them desire to increase market share.
Hard to sell McDonald’s nationwide if individual Franchisees can discriminate however they want.

jacquiweeks.bsky.social•76 days ago

You only need to look at the bakery refusing to sell a cake to someone to know how true this is. Ridiculous

melissjpeltier.bsky.social•76 days ago

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mtnman5411.bsky.social•76 days ago

I grew up in 1970s rural Georgia. The doctor's office, the swimming pool, and most main street businesses were still segregated. I heard it proclaimed (and later saw it fulfilled) "I will shut it down before I let a ------ come in those front doors!" Bigotry/hate is greater than greed.

sarah-smile.bsky.social•76 days ago

The public swimming pool in the small Louisiana town I now live in was filled in when the town was told it had to open it to anyone. Like, in the middle of the night, in secret, so no one could protest. That was over 50 years ago and they've never had another one.

mtnman5411.bsky.social•76 days ago

They filled in and made a splash pad out of the one in my hometown...but only after it sat behind a locked fence for about 5 years and became irreparable.

thryse.com•76 days ago

Racism is always the most important thing to racists.

boocow16.bsky.social•76 days ago

I concur

scohoe.bsky.social•76 days ago

So basically what Target did with LGBT

geniecemonde.bsky.social•76 days ago

Sounds like Merton's unprejudiced discriminator...discrimination as a matter of convenience.

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