Remember Leland Stanford, who called Asian-Americans the "dregs" of "an inferior race" in his inaugural speech as California governor before it turned out that he would be absolutely dependent on their labor to finish the Transcontinental Railroad. http://governors.library.ca.gov/addresses/08-Stanford.html …https://twitter.com/DavidChiu/status/1126909703181651969 …
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Replying to @kimmaicutler
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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I'm almost done w/ your book by the way.
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