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

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

[SuziQ]

It’s the kids who ridicule her that I worry about. When they succumb to this crippling ignorance, we all lose. We’ll have fewer doctors, teachers, artists and more. Fewer people to be proud of.

This is why it is hard to find exceptional black candidates for positions of influence in government and the corporate world. It has little or nothing to do with racism anymore; it is strictly the fault of the black 'community' not condemning the ghetto trash attitudes of most of black teenagers and young adults these days.

[R. Scott]

Lumping in Farrakhan with gangsta rap culture is pretty silly.

No, although much of the message is different (welfare, dignity, women) it still preaches that all the black man’s woes are do to the evil white man. The gangsta rappers preach a lifestyle of violence, as did the NoI.

[KateatRFM]

I have too -- the dean of students at the Tennessee Bible College I attended used to offer to "hep you pack" when you protested their very strict rules. And he was the whitest man I ever met.