We all know that blanket statements are just a convenient way to speak for what a group does or tends to do "in general".

The fact there are outliers doesn't mean a blanket statement is "racist" as long as it's accurate for the most. It's doubly not racist if it's positive (and "understanding how the world really works" is a positive thing).

> However, I would say that a blanket statement about all members of a race such as this, 'black people have no alternative to understanding how the world really works.'

Context matters: in a discussion of percentages of a population holding particular views, where it is offered to explain why a certain percentage of blacks holding a view is improbable, that's not a blanket statement, its a statement about the relative frequency of experiences relevant to the belief in question.

Racism generally does ignore class. One of my best friends is a very successful man who happens to be black - and large, and very dark-skinned. He's a doctor and hospital administrator with strong financial expertise, definitely a one-percenter. How safe do you think he is if he gets pulled over by the cops? If he's walking down the street toward a white person, do you think they get that twinge of fear, or do they think "Actually, he probably makes about ten times what I do, so why would I be afraid he'd mug me?"

Class isn't immediately visible. Skin is.

>It is when it ignores class and takes people of different ethnic and economic groups and treats them as homogeneous based on skin color alone.

You mean just like a racist society does (which makes the statement even more accurate)?

Because even a "rich/european/etc" black person is still a n... when it comes to a racist society, and while his experiences might be better, they'd still be shaped by racism.