1.   For poor blacks, without money to move, living in an inner-city ghetto can mean days without seeing a white face.

2.   Many believe the tax unfairly penalises poor blacks by increasing basic food prices.

3.   There are few votes to be won in the rich white suburbs by promising to move poor blacks there.

4.   And what could be more embarrassing to Democrats than having to explain why they send their own children to fancy private schools while denying poor blacks similar choices?

5.   As the inner cities have emptied out, the schools have places available for the poor blacks and Latinos who have replaced the whites.

6.   At these schools, middle-class blacks typically perform better than poor blacks and often score above the national and state average for blacks.

7.   Atlanta is staging the Olympics to benefit rich whites on the backs of poor blacks.

8.   A few years ago, they gravitated to rap, embracing it the way so many poor blacks have long embraced basketball.

9.   A tiny class of white plantation owners held poor blacks in economic serfdom, chopping and picking cotton, nearly always in debt.

10.   All major parties endorse breaking up large farms, owned mainly by whites, and distributing the land to poor blacks.