And what, Ānanda, are the six classes?

1. Here, someone of the black class produces a black state.
2. Someone of the black class produces a white state.
3. Someone of the black class produces Nibbāna (Enlightenment), which is neither black nor white.
4. Then, someone of the white class produces a black state.
5. Someone of the white class produces a white state.
6. And someone of the white class produces Nibbāna (Enlightenment), which is neither black nor white.

(1) And how is it, Ānanda, that someone of the black class produces a black state?

Here, someone has been reborn in a low family - a family of Candālas, hunters, bamboo workers, cart makers, or flower scavengers - one that is poor, with little food and drink, that subsists with difficulty, where food and clothing are obtained with difficulty; and he is ugly, unsightly, ill proportion, with much illness - blind, crippled, lame, or paralyzed. He does not obtain food, drink, clothing, and vehicles; garlands, scents, and ointments; bedding, housing, and lighting.

He engages in misconduct by body, speech, and mind. In consequence, with the breakup of the body, after death, he is reborn in the plane of misery, in a bad destination, in the lower world, in hell.

It is in such a way that someone of the black class produces a black state.