He was consulting on this film when I was in HS. Racism was a huge wedge that scuttled labor solidarity, then and I guess now.

I'll never ever forget hearing an audio tape of A Philip Randolph talking about the need for "the black working poor and the white working poor" to come together. His voice is like the voice of God. And of course he hoped for something that the rich/owners/bosses will always, always work against.