OT: Well Said

[Pete44ru]

"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...

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 stuff 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.

These lower economic people are not holding up their end in the 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 backwards: 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 ?
Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up ?

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and has all type of needles [piercing] going through her body?

What part of Africa did this come from??
We're not Africans.
Those people are not Africans; they don't know a thing about Africa.....
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that stuff .................. 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 neighbourhood back.

People used to be ashamed.
Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' - or partners, 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 white people any longer."

Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

[rjohns94]

So true. Bill Cosby is one of the greats in my books.

[Ysabel Kid]

So true. Bill Cosby is one of the greats in my books.

+1 - I only hope people are listening...

[pharmseller]

When/where was this published/said?

Quinn

[Bruce Scott]

Dr Cosby's address at the 50th Anniversary commemoration of the Brown v Topeka Board of Education Supreme Court Decision.

http://www.eightcitiesmap.com/transcript_bc.htm

[Pete44ru]

What I posted was a paraphrasing - His speech, in it's entirety, is a much better read, and (sadly) applicable to many more kinds of youths than the ones targeted in the speech.

[Quick Karl]

Funny how he's the only person with the nerve to speak the truth - but our political-media-entertainment-elite-class completely ignores it, because they WANT people to be stupid - it guarantees they stay in power.

Of course if you were white and said what Cos said you would be branded a racist by the very folks who claim they support freedom of speech and freedom of the press - the political-media-entertainment-elite-class - our great country at it's best, huh.

Wake up, America.

[Charles]

Bill Cosby is not only a great talent and man of great intellect, he is also one of the very few black people to speak the truth to other black people. He is such a strong believer in education, that he went back to school at the heighth of his career to get a Drs. degree in Education. He wanted to know more about how to people learn and how they are motivated to learn.

He has been beating this same drum for some years now and he is not well received by most black people and their self appointed leaders. He is labled a "Tom" and "Oreo" and other less than flattering names.

The popular black culture is anti-education and anti anything that would make them appear to have bought into the white value system. They harbor deep seated anger againts the white race for their history.

Sooo, they lock themselves into poverty, kill each other on the streets take extreme pride in their differentness from the white matrix culture. IN doing so, they doom their children to relive the past. The whole culture is a giant "Ground Hog Day", powered by deep seated systemic anger at the white man.

Very sad..very sad indeed..and not just a little bit stupid in the bargin.

[C. Cash]

That's pretty much it in a nutshell Charles. I was very intrigued by Jesse Jackson and the like when I was young. Then, the LA Riots hit when I was a young teenager. I was north of there by about 2.5 hours but I saw the cars coming up the freeway laden with loot and honking their horns in victory. When the rioters initially started pulling people out of their cars and trucks because they were NOT black and trying to kill and rob them, I thought for sure that the Black leadership would come on TV and say something like "we have our grievances, but killing people is not the answer". I saw Jackson, Sharpton, Waters, Mfume and others get on TV and instead say basically "This is what you get white America for years of Racism". That told me all I needed to know about the Black Leaders of our time, then and now....no regard for the lives of anyone but themselves and "their kind". It was about that time that I thought the Mini-14 would be a great idea to protect my family. Thankfully, there are still many Blacks who don't buy into their garbage, but a large portion do, especially the Muslims and inner city folks. I could rattle on about the Educational System laying the groundwork for all this but I'll spare you guys. Sorry to be on the soapbox yet again....

[Charles]

The political implications for Obama aside, the interesting things about the Rev. Wright event was how black church and community leaders ralleyed around him as a great prophetic voice expressing their mutual angst and world view.

This speaks volumns about black anger in this country. Whether you like Obama or not, a reasonable person has to give credit to Obama for his speech on race in America. He drilled it dead center. However, that doesn't address his choice to remain in that church and does place a large question mark on his judgment.

I don't see any of this to be much of a threat to white America. I see it as a very significant threat to black America and keep them living in a negative past, when the nation has changed and moved on.

I have never met Sharpton, but I have met Jessie Jackson on several occasions and IMHO opinion they fan the flame of black anger and victumhood to gain power and influence for their own self serving purposes. They are a major factor in locking black America in their past. But, it would appear that to be a black leader all it takes it to stand up and spit in the white man's eye. That seems to be enough.