{"id":5725,"date":"2011-12-15T12:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/?p=1672"},"modified":"2011-12-15T12:45:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T18:45:36","slug":"baratunde-thurston-responds-to-gene-marks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/baratunde-thurston-responds-to-gene-marks\/","title":{"rendered":"Baratunde Thurston responds to Gene Marks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A followup on <a href=\"http:\/\/freethoughtblogs.com\/xblog\/2011\/12\/13\/forbes-gene-marks-needs-to-check-his-priv\/\">this<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Dear Mr. Gene Marks,<\/p>\n<p>I am a poor black kid. I don&#8217;t have great parental or educational resources. I&#8217;m not as smart as your kids. These are facts. In 2011.<\/p>\n<p>The one smart thing I do everyday is read Forbes. It&#8217;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 &#8220;If I Were A Poor Black Kid&#8221; printed out and slid under my door like all Forbes articles.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inamerica.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/14\/letter-from-a-poor-black-kid-baratunde-thurston-responds-to-forbes-gene-marks\/\">Read the whole thing here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Then, if you feel like being insulted and annoyed read Marks&#8217; anemic response, <a href=\"http:\/\/inamerica.blogs.cnn.com\/2011\/12\/15\/forbes-if-i-were-a-poor-black-kid-writer-gene-marks-responds-to-baratunde-thurston\/\">here<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A followup on this: Dear Mr. Gene Marks, I am a poor black kid. I don&#8217;t have great parental or educational resources. I&#8217;m not as smart as your kids. These are facts. In 2011. The one smart thing I do everyday is read Forbes. It&#8217;s what all us poor black kids do. Forbes is constantly &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/15\/baratunde-thurston-responds-to-gene-marks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Baratunde Thurston responds to Gene Marks<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5020],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-1ul","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}