Not too long ago, Fox News reporter Neil Cavuto assured viewers that, “ Poor Americans’ ownership of refrigerators, and other “Modern Conveniences” should be proof that they are not suffering. Recently, Newt Gingrich entertains the notion that poor people have no habit of work. And now, a clueless Forbes contributor, Gene Marks, writes an open letter to “poor, black” children telling them all things they can do if he were in there situation. It is very clear to me that the poor, working poor, and "middle class" is under attack with an all out full frontal assault. That's why, I am gland Toure responded in the way that he did. Here's what he had to say, "If I were a middle class white guy writing on Forbes.com about being a poor Black kid I’d be clueless. I’d be so clueless that I wouldn’t realize that I’m clueless, so I would not know that I should really, really step away from my expensive computer and not press send on my condescending, paternalistic and simplistic little essay that breezily fixes the problems of poor Black kids. I wouldn’t think, well, if these steps are so easy — use the Internet to get more learning and try real hard — then why don’t more kids do that? I mean, wouldn’t some of them have thought of that already? No, they wouldn’t because none of them are middle class white guys."
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