If I Were A Poor Black Kid

I would agree with the authors view points in the article “If I Were a Black Kid”, by Gene Marks. In this country anything is possible, but what separates a millionaire from someone barley making it by is hard work. A lot of time and effort goes into becoming successful and a lot of hard work. One must work as hard as they can, and use their resources. They are going to need to travel around or spend the hours on eBay looking for a cheap resort. Get a job to pay for the technology. The options are out there but, they are going to be hard to find. Getting good grades on top of that and working as hard as you can in the class room will be difficult. But as long one puts in the time and effort and pushes through the hardship of his/her’s life I do also believe that anything is possible in the land of opportunities.

One of the responses to “If I Were a Poor Black Kid”, was very brutal and mean to the author. The man, a poor white kid, who eventually graduated from Stanford. Disagrees with the whole thing and feels as though it its harder said than done. One who comes from a single working parents that has to work 15 hours a day and 6 days a week does not have it easy. Almost not able to afford anything and going to the library not just for studying, but it is the only place with actual heat they can go to. This is not a very good life. But doing what one could do to get out of it and still working hard to getting the good grades made it possible for them to go off and be a big shot, it gave them the little go they needed to realize they didn’t want what they had, but more. So even though this guy disagrees, at the same time he followed it, maybe not to the extent of using every option but he kept his options for success open with his grades. Still in the end I would have to agree with the author with the fact that there are definite ways to get out there and find the programs or things that will enable people to do good for themselves. Even though all the things that he supplied the readers with are not possible, there still has to be a couple of the steps that one can follow.