Please provide a thoughtful comment/reply to my classmate's discussion post. Here is the original discussion post made by my classmate:

''Because of poverty, organized labor and unions developed "Unions struck to demand shorter work weeks for family time and relaxation in the late 1800s, when the typical American worked 100 hours a week. We all use labor day as a day off when truly labor day is the movement that originated during the industrial revolution a time in the late night century when America increased in size and prosperity." Both originated as a response to poverty and enslavement. https://youtu.be/ewu-v36szlE

Labor movements and those battling against racism were targeted for repression because whites began to feel threatened and it was a dangerous moment for everyone. Articles indicate "White sailors freshly returned from the war had been drunkenly attacking and lynching black persons in the capitol for days. The unrelenting attack spread to dozens of U.S. cities in the crimson summer. In 1919, white troops launched widespread, indiscriminate racist attacks on the 380,000 black veterans who had returned from the war. According to the Equal Justice Initiative, black veterans were considered as a danger to Jim Crow and racial subjugation because of their military service." https://www.history.com/news/red-summer-1919-riots-chicago-dc-great-migration External links.

Law enforcement failed. They killed, tortured, and interrogated countless non-whites. The red-black fear article discusses this. "Police are uncontrolled. They kill defenseless, impoverished, mostly non-white individuals with impunity. Provoke protests, jail journalists, and violate civil rights. They torture and interrogate inmates in black sites. Their unions shield them from responsibility, seek special legal protection, and destroy the political power of any mayor, governor, or public figure who even gently criticizes them. They refuse to compile and share national statistics on their on-duty violence. They oppose democracy's basic transparency standards. The police now treat the citizenry like an occupying army." https://jacobin.com/2020/06/police-united-states-strikebreaking-class-war''

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