Also, any history buffs note the coincidence (irony?) that the Uber IPO is scheduled 150 years to the exact day of the completion of the Transcontinental Railroad & the nailing of the Golden Spike, which created the Southern Pacific monopoly and octopus?https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1126909703181651969 …
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"May God continue the unity of our country as the railroad unites the two great Oceans of the world,” — the words etched into the Golden Spike, just four years after the Civil War had ended.pic.twitter.com/2XUj16Il7L
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No Chinese Americans here in the final photo, even though they were paid 30 to 50 percent less than their white colleagues and were given the hardest work. Chinese civic organizations retrieved 1,200 bodies along the route. https://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-chang-transcontinental-railroad-anniversary-chinese-workers-20190510-story.html …pic.twitter.com/pOq3F7P1Fh
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Southern Pacific is the company that litigated parts of the Supreme Court precedent that corporations can be considered people under the 14th amendment, a Constitutional amendment created to elevate the rights of former African-American slaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Clara_County_v._Southern_Pacific_Railroad_Co.#Significance …
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And then the university Stanford founded two decades later became a leading center for the ‘study’ of scientific racism.https://www.stanforddaily.com/2016/12/07/stanfords-history-with-eugenics/ …
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and Big Four never paid back the federal loans that financed the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad to the U.S. government! https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft22900486&chunk.id=d0e542&toc.depth=1&toc.id=d0e542&brand=ucpress …
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Your quote from Stanford's inaugural address led to googling which turned up this quote from H.H. Haight, the Gov. preceding Stanford, which led me to *his* 1867 inaugural address which turned up some real doozies! Damn! Two years *after* the end of the Civil War?!pic.twitter.com/zuJMaMzLz4
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In about 1852, the Legislature authorized reimbursement for any ammunition used to murder Indians. An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 https://www.amazon.com/dp/0300181361/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_4DY1Cb4SGDE4D …
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that Asians are dregs? What?
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