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...... As nations increased their wealth through overseas exploration, conquest, plunder and colonial exploitation, the concept of race and nation got intertwined with domination, conquest and exploitation of inferior peoples, especially peoples of color (Institute of the Study of the Science of Society 2003). As African slaves filled the labor needs of the Americas, the concept of race spread. It facilitated the control and exploitation of both whites and blacks. Out of fear of slave rebellion, the early colonial ruling class extended privileges to whites and tightened slave codes to keep the two groups separated (ISSS)
Under the administrations of Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman, progressive policies were adopted and among them were on Social Security, protective labor laws and the GI Bill (Katznelson 2005). Northern members of Congress were in dominant control of legislation on welfare, work and war and who treated African Americans differently. Between 1945 and 1955, the federal government allotted more than $100 billion to support retirement programs and opportunities for job skills. The programs dramatically reshaped the countrys social structure and left out most Blacks out of it. Farm workers and maids who were mostly blacks in the South were denied Social Security pensions and

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