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

    12/03/2005 2:09:57 AM PST · by Cincinatus' Wife · 142 replies · 3,613+ views
    Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | December 1, 2005 | RICK BADIE
    Mandisa likes Abercrombie & Fitch, not FUBU. She speaks proper English, not Ebonics. She takes honor classes and belongs to the Beta Club and National Arts Honors Society at Parkview High. She plays the violin and has danced and sung in area productions of “The Nutcracker” and “My Fair Lady.” Mandisa Surpris, a 15-year-old sophomore, is all this. And she’s black. 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. They’ve even told her...