When we say impoverished people are lazy, we are expressing a classist idea. When we say Black people are lazy, we are expressing a racist idea. When we say impoverished Black people are lazier than impoverished White people, White elites, and Black elites, we are speaking at the intersection of classist and racist ideas—an ideological intersection that forms class racist ideas. When Dinesh D’Souza writes, “the behavior of the African American underclass…flagrantly violates and scandalizes basic codes of responsibility, decency, and civility,” he is expressing class racist ideas.
