"The most important "violence" in the south today is that constituted by the prison system. And is that violence actually worse than the violence constuted by the prison system in the north or by Guantanamo? And certainly Chuck described in gory detail a really serious kind of violence when he gave an account of his working life. I only spent two months in an auto factory: Detroit Transmission Division of General Motors, 1955. But I would argue that merely asking people to relax for 9 hours on a comfortable couch within that factory would have constituted serious violence."
What I'm hearing is that violence does really exist and that you're describing it rather well.
Joanna