Reply #3: That's because the elite fear the poor and the workers

[MountainLaurel]

I believe it was "A People's History of the U.S." that reprints letters from Thomas Jefferson that basically outlined the plan for race war in this country. You see, the poor whites were starting to sympathize with slaves and free blacks, and that just couldn't be allowed to happen. So, the early American spin machine went into overdrive, raising boogeymen of how blacks just wanted to rape white women and how they were less than human. Free blacks would take jobs and land away from good god-fearing whites.

Sound familiar?