Читать книгу The Fall of Detroit - Dmitry Nazarov - Страница 6

20 years later, Detroit became the fourth city in the US by population. And because it was merely industrial, no Nobel Prize Winners were gathering there, but unskilled workers, mainly Black ones.

Add to that Ford’s politics: he paid his workers much more than market prices, and he promised to pay everyone much more than market prices, and he paid!

Really, worker wages in Ford factories were the highest ones on the market. Detroit became the center of the Great Migration.

The Great Migration is the process in the US in 1920—1930s, when the population of the agricultural South was leaving to the industrial North.

First, because the white southern population treated Black people inferiorly and frequently used violence without any doubts. Second, it was better working in the North in the factory plants and earning money than sitting in the South on the field and earning a bullet in your ass. Who does this nigger think he is? Calm down. Plus, white people who had their Black workers, servants, etc, etc, – they were leaving to North all the same because there was a growth perspective.

Of course, they brought many with them. Now it would be a bit difficult. Hang on and try to hold the picture in your mind.

In general, the city was populated with unskilled workers. Mostly Black ones, immigrants from other countries, Jews – hi, Ford! – and the top management, white people who were making money on all those people. They didn’t have much respect to each other.

And that’s why in 1920, in Detroit, they opened a branch office of the non-for-profit organization that was called Ku Klux Klan.

It originated from the South, but then, together with the Great Migration, it spread out across all the country.

The main idea of that organization was in no way allowing equality between white people and black people and saving the country from Black invasion. Their activity resulted in hundreds of thousands killed. The main swing of their terror occurred in the first half of XX century.