He is a poor black kid....

If you felt a kinda way about the Forbes' article "If I Were A Poor Black Kid" by Gene Marks... then you need to read this post from Rashaun Williams (Twitter at @DJReezey)

I have taught in a school of 100% of "poor black kids" and I teach now in a school that has a lower percentage of this type of kid. This experience has taught me these "resources" that people think black kids have are a joke and even if they are there, the fact that these kids live in the lower tiers of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs means access does not help them in any way. What this perceived access does is let people with means, that don't want to visit or help these kids, think that everything is fine; and if the kid just worked harder they too could achieve the American dream. This simply is not true! There is an unwritten, talked about or documented system that keeps this population of kids uninformed. There is a reason Regan privatized the jails in the eighties and Bush pushed so hard to privatize schools in the two-thousands, and from my perspective it is to keep that flow of people coming in the doors so corporations can make money off a head count.