If I Were a Poor Black Kid

I think that this article is completely wrong. I feel that the author wrote what he would do as a middle-aged white man pretending to be a poor black child. He says he would do all the things that middle class white kids do. He says he will do everything in his power to succeed. His ideas are in accurate. I’m sure that poor black kids want to succeed and move on to do great things, but it just isn’t possible. The writer assumes that he would be the best of all the kids. He assumes that he will have the knowledge he has now. What if he wasn’t? Poor children of any color face issues every day, sometimes they are a matter of life and death. I think that if the writer really was a poor black kid he would have a lot more on his mind than just doing well in school. For example, he may have to worry about getting to and from school safely, or when his next meal will be. I think that the writer forgot that being a poor black child doesn’t mean that you have the intelligence of an adult, and that life does not allow you to only focus on school.  I agree with the responses to this article, at least the ones I read. They all said that the article was inaccurate and extremely unlikely. They noted that he assumes he will magically know everything about how to apply for financial aid and things of that nature. One response even accused the author of writing this article in order to receive a pay check. Personally, I do not find this accusation to be farfetched. I feel like there was very little thought put into it. I think the title could have been “If I was a Middle Class White Kid” because there is little insight into the author actually being a different color or limiting himself to the resources that poverty stricken families are stuck with.