Certainly a meme I've heard a million times. I think Obama even said it while he was still president.
But so what? I don't see what it's supposed to imply.
You've got a black guy living in poverty working two part time jobs no benefits, obeying one abusive authoritarian after another over his whole life.
Maybe that guy really does feel more solidarity with a black factory owner whose life does not resemble his in any way. But why is this?
It's not because that any black people are actually more affected by "profiling" than by their class situation. It's because they're economically conservative in the "embarrassed millionaire" sense -- more likely to view the robber baron as a figure of aspirational emulation than an exploiter. These types of people (they're the majority of every race of course) aren't leftists turned off by class politics, they're just on the opposite side: they're the economic right-wing. They're quite simply on the side of the owning class, even though they're not owners.
> if you run that same materialist analysis today, the evidence for class's primary, let alone a sui generis status, is the weakest it has ever been.
Huh?? People's day to day lives are still regulated by wages. Children's upbringings are defined by the competition to conform to requirements of the wage-paying institutions. How can class not be primary? Black or white, the odds have to be 90%+ that the last "or else" order you obeyed was delivered under a wage-based threat.