Definitely closes the gap. But racism (or gender) hits in ways that wealth cannot easily erase, since wealth is not always conspicuous. Even within class there are hierarchies of power. In a nutshell: I agree with your emphasis on class, but I feel weird about ranking it in absolute terms.

I definitely don't deal in absolutes. Which is why I buy stock in generalities or statistics. And by going along those routes, I'd say a black man in a beamer VS a white woman in a rusted out geo metro, the metro is probably gonna get pulled over first.