Posted on 03/22/2007 9:37:06 AM PDT by shortstop
Hey, hey, hey!
Bill Cosby 2008.
Yup.
Bill has always called it like he sees it. I like his thinking.
One big thing he either didn't say or doesn't know is that the illegal immigrants from Mexico are making blacks a smaller minority. In a generation or two at the current rate of influx, blacks will be a curiosity, not a minority with any voice.
Dats cuz white kids iz now trying to be "hip hopper" too. Know whut I mean?
More wisdom from the Coz.IMO,too little,too late.Do the people who need to hear the message listening?
Unfortunately it is cool to be dumb and stupid because we shouldn't infringe on anyones right to be lazy.
"We cannot blame the white people any longer."
Except the white people who are economically and politically invested in keeping these people poor and dependent on government programs.
Not just in America, but places like England or France, where white kids are all succumbing to that particular stupidity that hip-hip culture brings.
I was shocked by the amount of graffitti and gangsta style on my last trip to London. Sad and depressing.
"I tend to agree with most of it....except for the fact that there's a heck of a lot of white kids who talk like that, wear clothes like that....etc...and they come from all socioeconomic backgrounds. They're unemployable too."
Bill Cosby has always been very aware of his race, and a defender of such. The media painted him as a black racist. I think he was an advocate. Now that he's come to the logical conclusion of his advocacy, that blacks need to take charge of their own community, blacks are calling him a Tom. When you speak plainly, and are brutally honest, lots of folks will have a problem with you.
Bill is an advocate for the black community. Although the problems with poor white kids are similar, and I'm sure Mr. Cosby would acknowledge them, he can only take on so much. Besides, white kids can't blame their situation on another group keeping them down.
Cos for President!
"People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads throwing that all away."
You know, this is a really good point.
The really scary thing is blacks as a community were doing so much better morally and everything else before the '60s. Better educated (in reality) and better behaved, better morals.
It's ironic things have worsened since the '60s. The civil rights thing was good, but the welfare thing came at the same time. Without the welfare, blacks would probably be doing BETTER now than they were in the '40s, instead of worse.
"It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to look at the numbers.
Fifty percent of our children are dropping out of high school.
Sixty percent of the incarcerated males happen to be illiterate. There's a correlation. "
I was always curious if Mr Cosby supports school vouchers. I've never heard him come out for that, just curious.
Nah. He's still a big lefty.
I believe the expression is, "No whut ahm sayin'?"
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