Schalk notes that contemporary Black Disability Political Praxis tends to uphold an understanding of intersectionality that places racism not being a more preeminent system of oppression than ableism, but instead understanding racism and ableism and intertwined and mutually constructing. Schalk contrasts this understanding of intersectionality with understandings of the intersection of disability and race by the Black Panther Party or the NBWHP that looked at racism and ableism as two separate systems of oppression that compound when they affect the same person.