TIME TO REALLY OCCUPY WALL STREET… Forbes, what if a Poor Black Kid and his community stopped spending dollars with Wall Street? livefandom tv  good: GOOD senior editor Cord Jefferson responds to Forbes’ horrendous piece, “If I Were a Poor Black Kid”: You find this sort of thing a lot among the white, moneyed, conservative set: “If only blacks and Latinos would work harder, they’d be fine.” I don’t think Marks and people who think like that are malicious, but I’d love to ask them how best to focus on your studies when all you can think about is the very real possibility that your mother is being assaulted in the bedroom where you’re supposed to find sanctuary at night. How best to prioritize learning to read rigorously over scheming to get home and be the man of the house in the stead of the father who left? How best to find joy in school with so much hate and bitterness poisoning the rest of your life? Read more on GOOD→
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TIME TO REALLY OCCUPY WALL STREET… Forbes, what if a Poor Black Kid and his community stopped spending dollars with Wall Street?

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GOOD senior editor Cord Jefferson responds to Forbes’ horrendous piece, “If I Were a Poor Black Kid”:

You find this sort of thing a lot among the white, moneyed, conservative set: “If only blacks and Latinos would work harder, they’d be fine.” I don’t think Marks and people who think like that are malicious, but I’d love to ask them how best to focus on your studies when all you can think about is the very real possibility that your mother is being assaulted in the bedroom where you’re supposed to find sanctuary at night. How best to prioritize learning to read rigorously over scheming to get home and be the man of the house in the stead of the father who left? How best to find joy in school with so much hate and bitterness poisoning the rest of your life?

Read more on GOOD→

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