Reply #128: No, H2OMan...That is the truth...ignorant or not..

[itzamirakul]

I am well over fifty and I have lived through segregation, Jim Crow Laws and all the rest and I am here to tell you that the rich, white powers that be of the time (1940s, 1950s) drove wedges between the poor whites and poor blacks who had so much in common in those days that it appeared for awhile that they might begin to see eye-to-eye. Those in power did this wedge driving by using the race card, i.e. "but at least you are not a nigger." And so their white skin became their value, their "property" if you will. If they had absolutely nothing else, they had their white skin. So help me, that is sick but it is true.