Bill is just talking reality. Not illusion.
My God, what a racist comment! Cosby was speaking against ignorance, slackery noninitiative, lack of discipline, the lack of goals, hip-hoppish thuggery, etc., etc. CNN, I guess, considers all of these negatives as characteristic of the "black community." African-Americans should be more upset with CNN's characterization than anything Bill Cosby said.
I'd say he's telling it like it is, especially in the inner cities. So much wasted potential.
Cosby is a very brave man. The "black community" has some fine role models -- including Cos -- but the lionizing of thugs which has gone on over the past 20 years is a tragedy. More power to Bill in his efforts to inject some sanity.
You just know Je$$e is wondering what's in it for him. Although he doesn't look really happy about being there....
Man, dat Cosby dude be gittin' on my nerves for real. If I see him in da hood I be gonna steal off on dat boy. Know what I'm sayin'? I don't be slappin' my baby mama 'cause I can't find work. I be slappin' da b*tch cause she be a ho.
Bill Cosby is a philanthropist, too. My little corner of Massachusetts tends toward rural poverty, and he has visited some of our poorest schools to encourage the kids to work hard in school to build a good life for themselves, and he has given money to help these schools. And our poorest schools are almost all white. He does it just to help our community, not because he wants publicity, as some philanthropists do...
Thank you, Bill Cosby!
"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n------ as they're walking up and down the street,"
I think that this portion of his speech is the most crucial...the black community has been fearful of going public with the problems within their community for fear of feeding the stereotype...unfortunately 10 to 20 years of neglect has ravaged a couple of generations of poor urban children...I teach in an inner city school in Brooklyn...it is positively daunting trying to undo some of the damage of parental neglect.
Hey, hey, hey...!
Here's my take on why Blacks are going nowhere (posted earlier on another thread).
While the White community, in my opinion, has been more than "giving" in providing programs and financial support to bring Blacks out of poverty and ignorance, unfortunately many Black leaders (and those who seek their political support) have not been willing to expect much of their constituency. Thus Black on Black crime abounds, as does Black racism (against non-Blacks) single parent households, out of wedlock children, low levels of learning, inability to work in the real world, and rampant drug abuse.
Immigration has built our country. And while we have Irish Americans, Italian Americans, Polish Americans, Native Americans, and now, the new "majority minority", Mexican Americans, they have all adapted (mostly) to the real world. They hold jobs, they earn a living, they build families, they obey the law.
But not so with Blacks. Even for those who have "risen out of the ghetto", it is OK for those who have not to make demands on the community as a whole. Thus crime rates rise, drug use abounds, contempt for the law is acceptable, "ghetto-speak" is permissible. The rest of the "minorities" see American freedom and opportunigy as more than this, but Blacks don't.
It’s almost as though while they have been freed, all they want to be is slaves. The Black who has left the ghetto accepts society’s rules, and lives by them (for they must after all earn a living, do something useful, come to work on time, not break the law, pay taxes and using "ghetto speak" at work won’t take them anywhere). But still they think it’s OK for other Blacks to not follow those rules, to remain slave-like in their approach to life. Cosby's is a lone voice.
My question is why must Mexican Americans obey the law, why must the Asian American, why the Irish American, but not the African American? Should we ignore this dichotomy and advocate such irresponsibility? Can society function with those discrepancies and inequalities? Is nothing more expected of the "freed slave" than to merely exist and take handouts? On the plantation, the master provided all the essentials of life. But even there work was required, and laws had to be obeyed (except in the "quarters" where more laxity was allowed). The "freed slave" wants the laxity of the "quarters" but none of the restraints of "life off the plantation".
Should this "freed slave" be allowed to prey on those trying to climb out of "ghetto-think"? Does compassion require us to accept, even to advocate such inequalities? Just what is "social justice" – is it no law and order for the Blacks, but law and order for the rest of us?
Until the "freed slave" is willing to accept the responsibilities of citizenship, he will remain as useless as Cosby says they are, and a drag on society. No wonder they use the "N" word to describe themselves, for that is what they have remained.
About damn time somebody said it.
This is a great thing for Bill to do. He's telling truths to/about scoundrels that the race hustler/race problem solvers are threatened by. And he's got enough gravitas that it works.
So Jesse Jackson is trying to ride Bill's jock now?--ROFLMBO!--now I've seen everything. . .
This is not just a "black" problem. Kids of all races try to take the easy way out by slipping into street behavior.
I was surfin' the cable channels and ran across "The Flip Wilson Show". He and Bill Cosby were successful black entertainers who "broke the color line" and moved our society to a more homogenious culture. Now they've been superceded by the black angst of the ghetto where their example is ignored. Dr. Cosby has a right to question the ludicrous lamentors!
BTTT
"...You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth."Sure ya can. Hasn't Bill heard about hiring preferences, the EEOA, Affirmative Action, race-norming...