Money equals
(and $15 minimum wage, & absence of college debt, increases)
ability:
… to maintain and document a residential address, and so register to vote.
… to take time away from work to wait in a voting line, or even run for office.
… to deter workplace discrimination, by showing ability to survive firing long enough to sue for compensation.
… to pay for birth control, pre-natal (and post-natal) care, and/or a trip across state lines for an abortion.
… to appear, in the eyes of a date (or anonymous) rape-inclined person, as a human being whose testimony about rape would be believed.
What part of the following don’t you understand?
If her daddy's rich, take her out for a meal
If her daddy's poor, just do what you feel
This was already understood by these mainly White-ish looking Bro’s in 1970:
But what about those racist cops? They are a menace not only to poor Black teenagers, but also to Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (and Sandra Bland and countless others) — but Professor Gates is still alive, probably in part because he looked, even to trigger-happy cops, like a human being whose relatives or friends might demand explanations if he had been shot to death.