Jews and Blacks and Their Encounters with Henry FordA Poem by Evyn Rubintold in HaikuHaiku in progress Jews and Blacks encounter Ford U.S. history Everything of Ford's was the most modern biggest Mr. Megascale Compare and contrast Jews and Blacks encounter Ford the challenge of Ford Ford's propaganda against the Jews leaped the scale his hateful paper Ford's propaganda megasized lies and half truths massively produced In Ford's newspaper the "Dearborn Independent" prejudiced method Jews were the villains of any and all problems that was the method While Ford trashed the Jews he hired Black male workers also massive scale Largest employer of Black male labor Ford was with pronounced fanfare Many Blacks escaped sharecropping in the southeast great migration north Detroit held promise Ford's anti-racist statements enticed applicants Work for Henry Ford a chance to share in the pie opportunity Some real benefits start at the same pay as whites the five dollar day That was big money but illusions were in play micromanagement You could loose that rate if you were caught listening to jazz in your home Ford detested jazz said Jews had enabled jazz called jazz jungle squeals Marriage was required of black male workers from age twenty-five and up If your wife was caught working outside the home then your pay rate would drop If liquor was found you lost the impressive rate Ford social control Your home was checked on monthly and surprise visits if you worked for Ford Dearborn off limits as a place of residence for Black employees Ford channeled Black hires to the township of Inkster to keep Dearborn white Ford's Inkster project repairs and new construction hefty strings attached No talk of unions no union activism no union sermons Ford's team met often with all local Black clergy attempted control on the job or off Ford was the union crusher tried to use Black wedge Resistance to Ford Blacks defied Ford joined unions Jews boycotted wrote Jews used written word letters petitions sermons boycotted Ford cars Blacks joined the unions attended union meetings marched in their protests tyrants seek to rule including and excluding to suit their own whim We must see through this tyrants divide to conquer don't settle for this
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