This is an important article, one that I forwarded to the editor of our daily city newspaper, The Greensboro News & Record (in Greensboro, NC). I am an Episcopal priest who once upon a time worked as an anti-poverty worker in a two-county, rural Community Action Agency in southeastern North Carolina. It was clear to me then and there that the area's blacks and low-income whites, some of whom made up the local Ku Klux Klan, had far more in common socially than they didn't, that their division served the purposes of a white power structure that would never be caught dead wearing sheets and funny looking, pointed hats but that garnered money and power through the deliberate racial division of poor workers instead.