rustbelter: This Talking Is Only Bravado

14:32 13th Dec 2011

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Reblogged from cordjefferson

Tags: just wow this post has like 90 thousand more views than my highest Forbes post

This Talking Is Only Bravado

If I was a poor black kid I would first and most importantly work to make sure I got the best grades possible. I would make it my #1 priority to be able to read sufficiently. I wouldn’t care if I was a student at the worst public middle school in the worst inner city. Even the worst have their…

Well.

I feel this warrants a full, articulate, evidence-laden response, if only to recover the Forbes name slightly. But I’m way behind on a magazine piece. And I cannot.

So I will leave you with this snarky response, this seminal paper, and this Jay Electronica lyric.
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  Can I please just pretend this is satire? No? Okay :(.
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  Man, I can’t wait until they run the counterpoint on this one.
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  Well. I feel this warrants...full, articulate, evidence-laden response, if only to recover...
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  It’s interesting to me how most of the critics of this article seem to have missed what’s substantively wrong here....
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  I just…what? Isn’t...kids can do this without too much effort because of inherent...
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  Don’t be silly, everyone! I’m sure all of the young poor black kids who read Forbes will find this incredibly useful!...
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  Amazing and awful in equal measures. (It’s not a parody, by the way.) Apparently the steps to be a successful poor black...
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  David Brooks just threw out the draft...he was working on for Friday.
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