re: #68 EPR-radar

Naturally. If you are going to make wage slaves out of the population, the first thing to do is stoke various resentments among the soon to be wage-slaves, in order to provide a distraction.

I think a lot of the South’s racist shit pulled against black people in that time period was completely honest racism, without ulterior motive of class division. On the other hand, you could say that the position of blacks in society was politically useful to the powers that be in the South for a long time, even under slavery, because it meant that the poor whites always had someone to look down on.