Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 January 2009
08:1312322#1
A message from Bill Cosby
'They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be..
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.
You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an Education, and now
we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
$500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something?
Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from??
We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa ....
I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection toAfrica, no more than white Americans have to Germany, Scotland, England, Ireland, or the Netherlands. The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa. So stop, already! ! !
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap ..... and all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs. We, as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.'
Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
WELL SAID, BILL
It's NOT about color...
It's about behavior!!!
Roger
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Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 January 2009
08:5112324#2
Excellent stuff.
Brian Dixon
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8 January 2009
14:5312343#3
sounds like tory spin to me.
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 January 2009
15:0912345#4
Brian - do you not know who Bill Cosby is? The American black actor.
From Wikki...
William Henry Cosby Jr., Ed.D. (born July 12, 1937) is an American comedian, actor, author, television producer and activist. A veteran stand-up performer, he got his start at various clubs, then landed a vanguard role in the 1960s action show I Spy. He later starred in his own series, The Bill Cosby Show, in 1969. He was one of the major characters on the children's television show The Electric Company for its first two seasons, and created the humorous educational cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, about a group of young friends growing up in the city. Cosby also acted in numerous films.
During the 1980s, Cosby produced and starred in what is considered one of the decade's defining sitcoms, The Cosby Show, which lasted eight seasons from 1984 to 1992, and is still seen in syndication. The sitcom highlighted the experiences and growth of an upper middle-class African-American family.
In the 1990s, Cosby starred in Cosby, which aired from 1996 to 2000, and during the show's last two seasons, hosted Kids Say the Darndest Things, and appeared in a number of movies. He has also appeared on the stand-up circuit.
His good-natured, fatherly image has made him a popular personality and garnered him the nickname of "America's Dad". He has also been a sought-after spokesman and over the years has plugged numerous products including Jell-O Pudding, Kodak Film, Ford, Texas Instruments and Coca-Cola (as well as New Coke).
In 2002, scholar Molefi Kete Asante listed Bill Cosby on his list of 100 Greatest African Americans.
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The last bit is interesting given what he says about 'African Americans', I bet Bill had some 'words' about that to this Molefi character.
Brian Dixon- Location: Dover
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8 January 2009
15:1512347#5
barry of course i know who is,never have liked though american humor dosnt apeal to me never has never will.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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8 January 2009
17:1812351#6
It is about time that a celebrated American addressed the nonsense of a supposedly patriotic country that still insists on refering to themselves as Italian Americans, Irish Americans and African Americans (but do they refer to Native Americans as American Americans?). On youth dialects he is on shakier ground as his own scripts are peppered with 'cool', 'man' and 'whatever's'.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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8 January 2009
18:4712365#7
could not agree more chris, 5 or 6 generations there and people refer to their "roots".
citizens of the most powerful nation on earth, and they want to be part of somewhere else.
very few of us in this country go back 2 or 3 generations.
8 January 2009
20:3312376#8
But our antecedants matter! We can be seriously committed to our country while maintaining a healthy respect for and interest in our ancestors and their homes. The danger is when the Roots become more important than the Now.
8 January 2009
20:3412377#9
PS - I loved the Cosby routine, Roger......
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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9 January 2009
08:4112398#10
Thanks Bern - do you mean the above, or the Cosby show ?
I don't think roots that go back 4, 5 or six generations have any bearing on where one is now; be proud to be what you are; what Bill Cosby is saying is that these guys are Americans - not African Americans, just Americans and as such should take responsibility for their lives and not keep blaming others (white folks).
As I've said on other threads many times, education is the key - to improving one's life.
Brian, the opening posting, was not a comical or comedian-type of comment, it was how Bill Cosby feels ahout the black youth of America, but it could (and does) apply to black people living anywhere outside of Africa.
If more black people thought the same (and not just in America) things would be so different - for everyone.
Roger
9 January 2009
09:3012414#11
Not just black people, any historically repressed group takes time to realise that, actually, the oppression has faded and they need to move on. Irish Catholics have a real reason to feel bitter, but have moved on and away from that, on the whole. Other groups could do the same. It matters that we acknowledge the reasons for the hatred, but that we support groups to move on and up away from the shackles of past wrongs.