165.95.3.192 Response You make a vital point here, Delma. As important as color, race, ethnicity, culture, gender may be in determining how individuals are treated, economic class cuts across all of those categories.
Socioeconomic status is almost the prime determinant for how folks are treated.
Unfortunately, in most of America, anyway, folks in teh lower classes are also of certain ethnicities and colors, and women still earn less than men, across the board. It is complex.