But also, I think, people will think, well, I know lots of wealthy women of color and I know lots of poor white women.
Black Afro-Caribbean boys are among the lowest achievers in England's education system, alongside poor white working class boys, according to official statistics.
But two middle-class kids from Boulder, Colorado, one Asian and one Latino, might have far more in common than either would with, say, a poor white southerner.
However, your argument that the problem is really one of poverty rather than race or gender (as very poor white boys who receive free school meals do slightly worse than very poor black boys) is flawed.
In the company of Emma McCune, misguided though she might have seemed to some, Ms Scroggins takes the reader by the hand into the hot dust of southern Sudan and the politics of the belly, where black meets white, rich meets poor and the fat white paunch of the West gets to look upon starving Africa's distended stomach.
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John Edwards dares to stand in the gap between rich and poor, black and white, urban and rural, a vision of a new America.
The poor performance of many white working class boys in schools is something that has been highlighted in the past, particularly by England's schools watchdog Ofsted.
In his speech, Mr Denham said disadvantaged white boys had more in common with their poor black classmates than with middle-class white people.
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Occupy Wall Street taught many middle-class white people what poor people and people of color had already known.
Now, with the arrival of a million white, mainly poor, foreigners, immigration is being analysed in more purely economic terms.
Democrats are equally convinced that Republican efforts to curb voter fraud are designed to disenfranchise two of their core constituencies, the poor and the non-white.
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Black, brown or white, rich or poor, we all have an equal say in the ballot box.
They were people from every background and every walk of life: black, white, rich and poor, young and old.
Poverty citywide, meanwhile, has been rising for three years running and the real Brooklyn, roughly half non-white, remains surprisingly poor.
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Also, the gap between black and white, rich and poor, isn't as wide as it used to be, but it's not closing very much, either.
Black and white, rich and poor united in outrage.
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Demanding that Fannie and Freddie do more to increase home ownership among poor people allowed Congress and the White House to subsidize low-income housing outside of the budget, at least in the short run.
He says those presidents with anaemic post-White House ratings have had poor brand management, while those acolytes working to create the Reagan or Kennedy legacies have done an astounding job.
"Stuyvesant was not necessarily a reflection of the bad real estate market, but rather over-ambitious assumptions, lack of risk controls and poor contingency planning, " explains Burt White, managing director of research and chief investment officer of LPL Financial, further asserting that the bottom dropped out of the market months ago.
"For instance, there was a man named Samuel Davis, and poor Davis was a hopeless watchmaker, " White says.
ESSEC, a top (also private) business school, both run schemes to recruit bright pupils from poor areas, many of them non-white.
Johannesburg, South Africa's most mixed city, is divided into the expensive (and mainly white) northern suburbs and separate poor districts which are almost entirely black.
The boardwalk is the obvious draw, a tourist attraction stretching about four miles along the coast with a diverse mass of humanity -- rich and poor, young and old, black and white, families and miscreants -- tromping up and down the wooden slats.
As for deconcentrating poverty, elite white neighbourhoods are not always welcoming to poor black families.
Few regulated properties come to market, and even fewer end up in the hands of the poor (the main beneficiaries of regulation are affluent white Manhattanites).
For instance, in the Gautreaux Programme, an experiment to combat racial discrimination in Chicago's public housing in the late 1970s, poor blacks were given vouchers to move to the white suburbs.
Tiffany White, from Gloucester, said there were poor hygiene standards at the hospital shortly before her son Oscar Wilcox died from a complex cardiac condition.
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