What is so ‘un-black’ about being intelligent?

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | December 1, 2005 | RICK BADIE

[PhilipFreneau]

>>>"She can talk about her experience now because she knows how to deal with it."<<<

The Uncle Toms can't keep all the blacks enslaved on the liberal plantation, no matter how hard they try. There will allways be a few who will escape to freedom.

[By "Uncle Toms", I mean, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Harry Belafonte, Spike Lee, and their kind.]

[DoughtyOne]

So right on...

It's also the culture that kids are fed from the media. The gangsta lifestyle doesn't lend itself to excellence.

[Katya]

My daughters best friend sounds like and eleven year old version of Mandisa. Earlier this year, another black girl made similar comments about her, essentially that she wasn't black enough on the inside. Even more ridiculous...the girl who made the nasty statement is herself bi-racial and very light skinned....but apparently according to the prevailing thinking...black enough inside.

[Cacique]

ping

[Boris99]

While serving as a squad leader in the 82nd Airborne, my best private was a black kid from South Carolina. He was motivated, knowledgeable, and all around good troop. I figured this kid would end up in Delta Force before too long.

Unfortunately in his off duty time he was surrounding himself with some of the less than stellar soldiers who were more interested in being gangstas than paratroopers. This kid was ridiculed for being gung ho, and trying to be too white. Only white rednecks go in for all that Army stuff you see.

[billhilly]

"Fewer people to be proud of."

I'm white, so take this with the skin off. In my opinion the above statement is most of the problem.

For forty years false idols have been set up for the black race to emulate and idolize. The writer refers to "my people" in his lament. My people are my immediate family, and have been from day one. Role models are brothers and a sister, and always mother and dad, both now deceased. There have been mentors and people deserving of admiration, but there never has been a white person that I have been required to idolize and find faultless..

Group think is no way to get ahead. Our differences are far more important than our similarities and as simple as that sounds, it is very liberating to be ones self. It sounds as if Mandisa had that all figured out until outside group think mentality kicked in.

[txroadhawg]

Mandisa wants to pursue acting or a career in the fashion industry.

What a terrible waste of a promising future.

[bert]

Mandisa cut the chains and escaped the bondage of the Big House. She is no longer a slave to her NAACLP massas who control all.

To those who fear leaving the plantation Mandisa is a threat.

[BadAndy]

"Some of the other black students don’t know what to make of her. The way she dresses, the way she talks, the grades she earns. She’s an anomaly. To them, she’s more white than black."

My guess is that blacks have been so filled with anti white hatred and propaganda that they reject white values.

[DaGman]

Excellent post. This extends beyond Blacks, though. I've seen it a lot in inner city Hispanic kids too. With Hispanics it seems to be not un-Hispanic, but just uncool. Some white kids see being intelligent as uncool too but to a much lesser extent.

I don't teach regular public school, but I see it in the religion classes (Catholic CCD, 7th-8th grade) kids I teach on Sunday. Not a whole lot of teaching experience, granted. But with a couple of the kids, their normal school attitudes seem to carry over to Sunday too. I have only one Black kid and she is a really bright, devout and eager to learn kid.

[Tribune7]

School Choice Bump

[tsali]

Dont forget Thomas Sowell and Walter Williams

[Redgirl]

My daughter's friend is bi-racial, and she lays out in the sun trying to make her skin darker so she'll be "accepted" more by her black peers.

[mel]

Indeed, it all about handouts, what can I get for free

[sgtbono2002]

Read the story of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

Here you have the same syndrome only instead of eventual acceptance she will never always be outside their sphere.

She has two choice as she goes through life. Either she rises above her antagonists like Condi Rice has done or she will hide her intelligence for fear of being called Uncle Tom.

[Conservatrix]

Wow. Someone finally had the onions to say this.
Wish I had.

[LiberationIT]

I've often wondered how Dr. King's "I have a dream" speech would sound delivered in ebonics.

It would have lessened the speech's effect.

[WorkingClassFilth]

This young lady is helping to change history. The day will come when black America is going to divide leaving a very messy legacy of helpless plantation slaves with their RAT masters. People of character won't allow themselves to be judged by the color of their skin.

[I got the rope]

You can't even hope to get through a job interview when you talk like half a retard.

I've been told by many executives in our business that if you were black and could dress and speak properly they would hire you in a minute.

[Ben Chad]

"I am not sure that is a uniquely black problem..."

Agree - the rappers have gotten to a lot of white kids - stupid is cool.