Condescending White Forbes Writer Pens 'If I Was A Poor Black Kid'

Here's a very good response to the Forbes post:

http://www.dominionofnewyork.com/2011/12/13/if-i-were-the-middle-class-white-guy-gene-marks/2/#.Tuoco7LTrAV

Marks is a fool. His article is part of the GOP conspiracy tool kit. The latest propaganda effort is painting black kids as slackers and idiots. Frightened whites will believe all African Americans are lazy and stupid. The voters will make that mental leap: black kids, black president. It’s the same trick tried by Newt. Gingrich said poor children in urban areas should become apprentice janitors. What next, right-wingers? Cotton picking?

Seriously, if Marks and the tin foil hat crowd are so concerned about the children of West Philadelphia or West Jablip--how about creating quality jobs, paying good wages and benefits. Then throw in adequate, affordable housing. And, let’s not forget decent schools, stocked with the necessary tools for success--computers, broadband access, qualified & caring teachers in a safe environment.

I guess Marks wants to keep working for the former Republican candidate for president(1996, 2000 primaries), Steve Forbes.

Marks must be an illiterate. Clearly, he isn’t a reader or he’d know illiteracy has long been used as a way to control access to power. Slaves were blocked from learning to read or write before, during and after the Civil War. Nothing has changed. The elite perpetuate a system , which assures there will always be an underclass, IMO.

We are about to enter the beginning of a ‘period of discourse’ for mind and heart engagement by age groups from the Silents, Baby Boomers to the Millennials. I am a black 56-year old educator for over 20 years with nothing to prove “cracked knuckled” to Kelly Virella or troller, Gene Marks. I wasn’t offended by the Marks article because frankly…to few people in America will actually “break-out from silos” to offer children comprehensive “how-to” insights black or white. This, certainly shows up in our neighborhood schools and national assessments. In fact we need for and organized effort brining 50-people from different socioeconomic and racial dispositions to tell our children black white, Hispanic, Asia, Native America they care enough to address them with a concept map of how to negotiate America. I would ‘beg’ anyone reading our topical issues to find out the last time a kid had the attention of an American adult on road mapping any suggestions for a positive future utilizing accessible technologies and attitudes. I am almost 60 trying to figure out how to build a positive online learning system as powerful technologically as GrandTheft Auto. There… is a place for addressing prolific advocacy and honorable mentions. In my black community there is in fact student achievement. There is also apathy which to me is expressed in our young males and some females sagging. Sagging to me is reflective of a disposition that [we the people] as adult free-to-impact our kids are all full of ourselves. It is also a sign that few well- meaning and rhetorical-well-meaning people have engaged the true needs of extraordinary and talented youth. Yah, I say God Bless America –because it is the socioeconomic experiment -- that we must continue to control with a self-determination and a pluralistic maturity. I think we need to sure up agenda and ideology and then team-up and grow up about discourse or the plight of our youth remains the same while we sit basking in ideological parlors!