Comment by d2mo

I learned of it by watching my parents use it while growing up in the Jim Crow south.

You people were never supposed to know of it. You could not be trusted not to burn the businesses to the ground.

  Are any reader surprised to learn that such is still very much needed and that several things things may well still exist and be in use to this day?

Same as it ever was. Thats why those of us who live through it still teach our children and grandchildren to "Never Trust Whitey". Funny how White folk are offended by that concept.