i'm feeling your remarks on the treatment of and terms used to denounce poorer whites, as james marshall told cuba gooding jr. in gladiator (old skool boxing movie) poverty isn't just a black disease. sometimes us as black folk may feel that being black means the world owes us an apology, but i have friends of all nationalities that would stand up against oppression just as quickly as a person of color. just as "eracism" has no set skin color, the "epidemic" of poverty has no preference, only socio-economic "body count".