1. @tanehisicoates did a great twitter-essay on how race & class intersect. Someone storify! I'm just going to augment with a few notes.
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2. One core problem is people talk about "the black middle class" in fantasy terms -- the Crosby Show fallacy.
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3. The Crosby Show fallacy is the idea that the black middle class is just like the white middle class except skin color. That's not case.
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4. Summing up a plethora of research, TNC notes black middle class has very different experience than white counterparts.
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5. Black middle class has less capital, lives in poorer neighborhoods, suffers more violence, etc. etc.
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@RubenBolling Right. But even upper class blacks would follow patterns outlined by TNC (having less capital, etc.)1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@RubenBolling Agree, that has to be true at some point.
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