I understand your point and sort of agree with it. Now toss Liberation Theology, preached by Rev. Wright and others, into the equation, and the social structure could be two sets of peasants. Those with the means to (previously) support themselves and those that were previously held in bondage by the gov’t with ineffective social policies, that will continue supported by the first set of peasants.
One of the rules of plantation owners was to set slave against slave. House slaves against field slaves. Lighter skin color against dark. That is what they use to keep us distracted and divided.