What do you think I am?
Unfortunately, I know from personal experience that poor whites deeply resent the sympathy showered on Blacks while they either get none are are treates as if they are the rich rapists of the rest of the world. I wish this were not true. If your experience is different, then I thank G-d for it. At any rate, at the risk of sounding like an old-time populist (which I'm not) or maybe Jim Goad, it would please me greatly if poor whites and Blacks joined forces against the limousine liberals who have inherited Ole Massa's tactic of divide-and-conquer.
Anyway the two poor boys respected the black mans authority, it was the effeminately dressed, rich, white boy that drew their hostility, not the blacks.
I'm glad to hear it. It's been so long since I've seen SOTS that I had even forgotten there were poor white children "villains" in it at all. I certainly don't remember all the vagueries of the plot (and having read the original stories by Harris the movie didn't impress me that much to begin with). My apologies for forgetting this detail, and cograts to the makers of the movies for not making the poor white kids into neo-Nazis or something (thought such a thing wasn't done so much in those days anyway).
I still have a complaint that poor whites and/or "rednecks" are often pictured as bullies. I'm a po' buckruh and I was never a bully. I'm personally sick and tired of "poor little rich kids" being picked on by big, bad, mean poor kids.
"I'm glad to hear it. It's been so long since I've seen SOTS that I had even forgotten there were poor white children "villains" in it at all. "
I just watched it for the first time since childhood, about 6 or 8 weeks ago, it is a very sweet and wise movie and should be re released.
Another movie you may like is called "The Southerner" made in the 40s, I think of it as closer to my mom's family story than the left wing " The Grapes of Wrath"
While both movies show times of her life, "The Southerner" better captures the noble and decent spirit of her family.
If you haven't read the book "The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats"
by Jim Goad, you should take a look at it.