I apologize to everyone.

[HopAlongBunny]

I would like to re-spin the concept of Us vs Them.

If we are destined to make that division, then it matters very much the basis on which we come to make the division.

God must have loved the poor because he made so many of them; God forbid that they should make common cause on that basis, so how convenient to further separate Them on the basis of race. What makes Huckleberry Finn a dangerous book is not its liberal use of the "N" word, rather it is its clear case for the common cause/condition of the poor as poor whether black or white. The fact that the book is set as a youthful adventure just makes it that much more noxious because it could shape the opinions of children.

Which in a long winded way brings me to my point: does the New Jim Crowe accentuate/perpetuate a "useful" division or bring the focus more clearly on the problem of poverty.