"If I Were a Poor Black Kid" - responce

I think Mr. Gene Marks is an over thinker... It's obvious he put a lot of thought into his responce. But, coming from a middle class white boy in north chicago, i can say im almost positive no normal student would go out of their way to do all those tasks. How often do you remember wanting to come to school to learn?! I'm not saying kids hate school but school is the base of a teenagers social life. Teenagers across America don't wake up in the morning to learn, they wake up to go see all their friends. I think Mr. Marks agruement is good and makes complete sense and i think a lot of people would be able to succeed by following his advice, but i personally think that no normal student would be able to go through all that work. I think it takes special people with minds to do great things, regaurding your race or skin color. I also think that Mr. Marks just can't come to grip with reality. He says he'd be able to afford a comupter and internet, be able to afford getting to and from every place he needs to go to study and learn, be able to afford the time to learn all these programs and system and codes when he might have to use that time to get a job and work to support his family. This world isn't perfect and your life plans are not going to turn out the exact way you want them to be. Only an adult who has been exposed to all these opportunities would know about them and would know how a young poor kid can succeed. No kid would ever think of think of it on their own.