Professor Melissa Harris-Perry is usually known for her cool, calm and collected demeanor; even her passionate examination of the Black community is always measured and academic.

This is probably why Monica Mehta,  a guest on MSNBC’s “The Melissa Harris-Perry Show,” thought she could voice a generic opinion on the private and business sector, in the context of risk-taking, without getting called out for its narrow scope.

She thought wrong.

After Mehta stated that entrepreneurship involves a level of risk, presumably not undertaken by those in living in poverty, Harris-Perry went in:

“What is riskier than living poor in America? Seriously! What in the world is riskier than being a poor person in America? I live in a neighborhood where people are shot on my street corner. I live in a neighborhood where people have to figure out how to get their kid into school because maybe it will be a good school and maybe it won’t. I am sick of the idea that being wealthy is risky.