When a policy exploits impoverished people, it is a classist policy. When a policy exploits Black people, it is a racist policy. When a policy exploits Black impoverished people, the policy exploits at the intersection of classist and racist policies—a policy intersection of class racist policies. When we racialize classes, support racist policies against those race-classes, and justify them by racist ideas, we are engaging in class racism. To be antiracist is to equalize the race-classes. To be antiracist is to root the economic disparities between the equal race-classes in policies, not
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