Middle America is chock full of towns, full of middle class white people who perceive almost zero opportunity. We have startups, Youtube, online university mat

Middle America is chock full of towns, full of middle class white people who perceive almost zero opportunity. We have startups, Youtube, online university materials, and enthusiast groups that will assist a motivated, energetic, optimistic person to get ahead. The second worst thing you can do to a person is tell them not to bother learning a subject because of their skin color. The worst thing is to add 10 points to each of their test scores, and have them find out. We've all had people [in grade school] make fun of us for learning computing or frankly being too good at anything. Below average people are always trying to drag us down. But once we get on the other side of a people-filter [such as college or a company] we realize the world is much more egalitarian and full of independent minded people. [Edits added in brackets]