‘Love, Not Google, Got Me Out Of Poverty’

There have been a number of responses to Forbes technology writer Gene Marks’ article, “If I Was A Poor Black Kid.” Here, News One blogger Terrell Jermaine Starr shares his path to becoming a Fulbright Scholar. Starr writes that what Marks “failed to touch on is that overcoming poverty is not only about access and citing statistics. It is a major — sometimes painful — cultural shift, both mentally and socially.”


My schools had the best technology available. But sometimes I was too scared to take advantage of it for fear of getting jumped by one of the many gangs that roamed between my house and middle school. Sometimes I won a few fights. Many times I lost. One kid who bullied me even threatened to kill me. This 13-year-old was part of a notorious neighborhood gang and was known to carry a gun, so my worries were not exaggerated.

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