Yeah, sure and if Chris didn´t like apples, bananas or kumquats he´d call them racist too just to get them banned!
MSNBC...what a complete joke!

Same idiots who try to tell you that "picnic" has racist origins from the 1950s even though the word is actually of 18th century french origin.

The right to NOT work however is a new right brought to you by the northern lazy inner city democrat party. Kick back and enjoy the free ride. Santa Clause is coming to town.

Would he be “uncomfortable” using the phrase “democrat party” because it had its roots in the “segregationist white supremacist south.”

Since Chris is giving history lessons here, do you think he knows that the southern Democratic Party owns slavery? Does he know that some free blacks owned slaves? Does he know that the southern Democratic Party wrote the Jim Crow laws of segregation and discrimination. Does he know that the southern Democratic Party of Oval Faubus, George Wallace, LBJ and others fought bitterly against civil rights legislation. Does Chris know that we fought a civil war about slavery, Abe Lincoln was a Republican? Does he know that Eisenhower ordered toops to integrate the high school in Little Rock? Eisenhower was a Republican, does Chris know? I could go on, but will stop here.

Does he mean that back when the unions were getting laws passed so that blacks (who the unions would not admit as members) could not undercut the wages the union demand some segregationist coined the term "Right-to-work" to oppose the efforts of the unions to make it more difficult for blacks to find work? I have trouble following the logic there.

I did a little research on Vance Muse. He was a Democrat, so that makes it plausible that he was a racist. On the other hand he was a political opponent of Woodrow Wilson and the segregation of the Federal government, including the military, is one of Woodrow Wilson´s "greatest" legacies. So, while it is possible that he was a segregationist, it was clearly not his top political priority.

I don´t think America can survive this kind of stupid, which as the last election proves is widespread.
KKK kleagle was Robert Byrd, democrat.

Every time MSNBC drivel is posted, I´m reminded of the obvious; without conservative websites, few sane people would know these freaks exist.

A quick labor history lecture -
The Wagner Act of 1935, known as the national labor relations act, was tilted heavily in favor of unions. The Act provided workers the right to join a union, and many were frozen out of the workplace because of closed shop agreements. A closed shop required a person to be a member of a union before he could even apply for a job. And the union might refuse his application for membership.
After a decade of huge problems with the Wagner Act, the 1947 Taft Hartley Act, known as the labor management relations act, attmepted to bring into some balance the rights of unions and management. And Taft Hartley said that a worker had a right not to join a union. And the Act outlawed closed shop agreements.
Section 14(B) of the Taft hartley act allowed a state to opt out of union shop agreements, by making such collective bargaining provisions uneforceable. (A union shop is a contract clause requiring continuing workers to pay union dues.)
24 states have exercised their 14B rights, Michigan being the latest.
It has nothing to do with state and local government employees. Just private sector employees.

So, it was a Democrat idea?

Where did white supremacist MSNBC come from? Not many blacks there.

#6, a lot of unions still do not hire blacks. That was one of the biggest complaints by several black voters this last election in the Chicago area.

So much history is not taught now. For instance... How many know that in their early years the American Federation of Labor (AFL) conducted fixed literacy tests to block blacks and immigrants (particularly Irish) from joining? The AFL´s predecessor, the Knights of Labor (KOL) not only banned Asians, but also worked to prohibit the immigration of Asians.

Yup, those labor guys have always been about brotherhood, unity and equality. s/o

Want to see segregation?
Go to New York City.

No prejudice here. /s

I refer to Chris Hayes, not you posters!

Oh dear dear. He got his talking points from the WH all screwed up. Look how stupid this man sounds. I wan to laugh but you don´t laugh at the mentally ill.

Can the BS get any deeper? We are drowning in it from this administration and their water-toting media!

Has the man ever lived in the south ?

L-rd love a duck. We have come so far only to make a huge U Turn in 2008.

Where does MSNBC get these nitwits? Right to work existed long before unions. It was called freedom.