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Nice article, John. Indeed, an egalitarian movement needs to show struggling whites that affirmative action should include them, too. And I don't mean giving jobs to uneducated people to fill a quota, but real access to quality food, health, education and cultural opportunity. The New Deal at least began to address those issues, laying the foundation for prosperity in the 1950s, one generation later. LBJ's Great Society had that potential but the warmongers used Vietnam to kill the possibility of a Great Society, by using money for war not betterment of the People. I believe this is a 'genetic defect' in the USA DNA, which created the highly faulty, oligarch favoring Constitution, and furthered, as you say, by divide and conquer poor white vs poor black tactics.