Chicago Magazine reports on the godfather of progressivism , economist Richard T. Ely:
Ely was a segregationist who disapproved of segregation, a racist who blamed white racism for the status of blacks in the south. In his textbook Outlines of Economics, Ely wrote that the “negro problem to-day… is due in some degree to the economic inertia and shiftlessness of the negroes themselves,” but also that it was due “in part to race prejudice of their white brethren” while acknowledging the ongoing effects of slavery.You'll want to read the entire article. Many progressives really are racists....
