The Long Hold, 19th Day of Childwinter, 526 M.E. (Aldebaran):  Since at least 1966, Martin Luther King, Jr. had endeavored to broaden the civil-rights movement for racial equality into a larger movement for economic justice. “Racial segregation,” he pointed out, “did not come about as a natural result of hatred between the races immediately after the Civil War.” Rather, he argued, it had evolved as part of a larger campaign to destroy an alliance between former slaves and dispossessed whites that emerged during Reconstruction. If you can convince the whites that despite their poverty and hardships they were still at least better than the blacks, you effectively prevent a broader movement against economic inequality, and the rich and powerful will remain effectively rich and powerful.

The Stable Genius, or those behind the scenes funding and fueling his rhetoric, is using the same strategy. Demonizing immigrants in particular and Latin Americans in general creates a division between white and black citizens and the growing Spanish-speaking demographic. Divide the population into ever-smaller ethno-economic demographics, and you'll never have to answer to a bloc that could potentially effectuate real socio-political change. Hell, they're even sowing divisiveness between rural and urban whites, between white conservatives and white progressives. 

Were he alive today, Dr. King would be in Minneapolis calling for the protection, safety, and quality of life of both the Hispanic and Somali immigrants there. He would have led a memorial for Renee Nicole Good, and would be protesting in front of the gilded remnants of the White House. 

If we succumb to the divisiveness and allow ourselves to be distracted by the phony, made-for-TV culture-war issues, and if each demographic assents to the further marginalization and suppression of the demographic it feels is on the next rung just below it, the Stable Genius wins, all power and wealth will fall into the greedy little hands of the autocrats, and the United States of America will effectively end as the land of the free and the home of the brave.

In fondest memory of you, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.