A followup on this:
Dear Mr. Gene Marks,
I am a poor black kid. I don’t have great parental or educational resources. I’m not as smart as your kids. These are facts. In 2011.
The one smart thing I do everyday is read Forbes. It’s what all us poor black kids do. Forbes is constantly reporting on issues of relevance to me and my community. This week, I found your article “If I Were A Poor Black Kid” printed out and slid under my door like all Forbes articles.
Then, if you feel like being insulted and annoyed read Marks’ anemic response, here.
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Good heavens, the comments on Thurston’s article are astonishingly stupid. The majority of commenters are complaining about his tone and stating that the Forbes piece was only trying to help and how about Thurston shut up and haul on his bootstraps instead of being racist (?!) and condescending.
Ugh. I wish Mr. Marks would solve all the other problems in the universe. How about cancer? World hunger? AIDS? No doubt he has a simple answer to everything else, just like the plight of poor black children.
But of course he does:Don’t get AIDS or Cancer, and if you’re hungry, just go find some food. There’s convenience stores everywhere, don’t you know?
That was a spot-on return from Thurston, and funny as well. He must have seen the Horatio Alger Cookbook among the fnords.
Yeah, most of the comments there, even the ones apparently agreeing with the post, are incredibly dim, and some are quite offensive.
And Marks is an even bigger idiot than I thought. Great response, guy. Overcome inequality by doing these things, things which are figgin’ affected by the inequality which is in place.
Too much stupid today. I’m gonna go read the bit about robins again to fix my brain.