We can agree to disagree. Our current status is not the result of Southern planters and Northern backers yet those of the same ilk work to maintain a class structure that keeps the proper imbalance. They work to keep us from finding common cause, much as they did after Bacon's Rebellion when the combined forces of white indentured servants, Black indentured servants, and Black enslaved people represented such a horror that the whole nature of slavery was changed to split the lower classes. The same forces are in play today.