[mcguire]

Flippantly, it's entirely possible for someone to be both paranoid and to have enemies.

People who are poor, and especially those that live in rural areas, face serious difficulties. But minority Americans face those same problems, plus racism.

"Everyone was on board with MLK's dream of equal opportunity for all. Racial discrimination was clearly a bad idea."

Everyone? Clearly a bad idea? I could rustle you up a big stack of people who disagree. Weirdly, many of them are poor and rural---you'd think they would see the common cause and join together, but no. On the other hand, there's the old joke about everyone having to have someone to look down on; they may be white trash, but at least they're not black.