I just re-read my post to this thread and noticed a number of grammatical and typographical errors.

I'm sorry about that. I can't proofread my own writing worth a darn. And if I take the time to use the Mudcat preview feature, I might not submit posts like that one.

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Any country where "trash" is casually used as a word to attach to any category of human beings has a serious problem. McGrath of Harlow

Putting aside the fact that every country has had, has now, and will have in the future serious problems that they are faced with, the problems of race relations and racism are indeed very serious. The phrase "White trash" seems to me to often be an example of in-racial prejudice. Another example of in-racial prejudice is using the word "Blackie" as a insult directed toward darker skinned Black children, sometimes-I should add-by Black children of the same or nearly the same skin color as well as by Black children who have somewhat or much lighter skin color than the person or persons that they are taunting.

See this clip from this website:http://www.bartleby.com/114/

[African American scholar, activist, and author] W.E.B. Du Bois
said, on the launch of his groundbreaking 1903 treatise The Souls of Black Folk, "for the problem of the Twentieth Century is the problem of the color-line"—a prescient statement. Setting out to show to the reader "the strange meaning of being black here in the dawning of the Twentieth Century," Du Bois explains the meaning of the emancipation, and its effect, and his views on the role of the leaders of his race."

-snip-

Here it is, more than 100 years later, and we haven't resolved the "problem of the color line" and all the proplems that are consequences of our failure to consider race as just a descriptor without any positive or negative valuation.   

Shame on us.