"Religion and the Left": A Commentary; Do White Workers Benefit From Racism?

Abstract

While shaving every morning, my father used to sing Joe Hill's anti-clerical song about the "long-haired preachers" who When asked about something to eat/ They would answer in voices so sweet,/ "You will eat, bye and bye/ In that glorious land above the sky/ Way up high./ Work and pray, live on hay,/ You'll get pie in the sky, when you die."/ That's a lie.

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