The Great Society was meant to keep blacks down. Progressives view blacks like Dirlewanger viewed pollacks, as degenerate mongrels that are only useful to unleash upon their enemies. Minimum wage was implemented as a tool for racial eugenics in conjunction with welfare and planned parenthood.

The operation of the minimum wage requirement would merely extend the definition of defectives to embrace all individuals, who even after having received special training, remain incapable of adequate self-support... If we are to maintain a race that is to be made of up of capable, efficient and independent individuals and family groups we must courageously cut off lines of heredity that have been proved to be undesirable by isolation or sterilization.

-Henry Rogers Seager, President of the American Association for Labor Legislation

It is much better to enact a minimum-wage law even if it deprives these unfortunates of work, better that the state should support the inefficient wholly and prevent the multiplication of the breed than subsidize incompetence and unthrift, enabling them to bring forth more of their kind.

-Royal Meeker, U.S. Commissioner of Labor under Woodrow Wilson

[Minimum wages] protect the white Australian’s standard of living from the invidious competition of the colored races, particularly of the Chinese.

-Arthur Holcomb, Massachusetts Minimum Wage Commission