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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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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Same thing happened in Canada. The country made a "heritage minute" to belatedly commemorate their contribution: https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/nitro …
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