I Got My Dream Job and Ended Up Enabling Racism

Roosevelt showed little patience for the “statesmen of the Atlantic seaboard” who were congenitally “unable to fully appreciate the magnitude of the interests at stake in the west.” In his telling, not George Washington and Thomas Jefferson, but Daniel Boone and Davy Crockett—fighting Indians, hacking their way through the woods—were the true autho

But it was the more skilled workers, the highly paid ones (like my relative) who were “the subject of constant abuse and under threat of termination and replacement by a lower-wage worker.”