David Sackman
May 9, 2023

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I wouldn't include a sweatshop owner in this list. Although Jordache was better than most - it was signatory with the ILGWU for a while - it farmed out most work to foreign sweatshops, like just about everyone else in the industry.

If you must include a capitalist, I would include Julius Rosenwald — the Jewish businessman who built up and ran Sears, Roebuck & Co. and used his money to create the Rosenwald Fund, to encourage African-American education, and counter the disenfranchisement caused by Jim Crow. My wife's family helped build two of those schools. See

https://medium.com/an-injustice/part-two-the-road-to-the-promised-land-39f20224759d

I would rather nominate a labor organizer, my hero you probably never heard of - Sigismund Danielewicz. See:

https://medium.com/cultivate/an-anti-racist-hero-is-something-to-be-8e522f05276

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David Sackman

Wherever I go, I am where I came from. Always a stranger in a strange land; yet always home. I claim no land, but take responsibility for all land.