'Why Does Parks Hate Unions?'

Betty Pleasant tries to answer that question in the September 18th edition of the Los Angeles Wave. Pleasant begins her column by calling Parks' recent controversial letter to the executive secretary and treasurer of the County Federation of Labor "despicable." She adds that Parks was "condescending, patronizing, disparaging, supercilious, disrespectful and downright nasty." Ultimately Pleasant questions where the country and Parks would be today without unions:

"Parks has a lot of nerve hating unions. After all, if it were not for unions, there would be no Black middle class, and certainly no pretentious Black bourgeoisie who can't remember where they came from or how they got here."

Read the entire column.