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Can't Blame White People
email ^ | Bill Cosby

Posted on 03/22/2007 9:37:06 AM PDT by shortstop

I did a search and didn't find this posted in the past on FR. I also checked Snopes and found this is TRUE.

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.

Mushmouth is what they speak!

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 throwing that all away.

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?

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?

They're walking around with their nasty underwear showing, and holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground!

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 to her panty line, and got all types of needle piercings 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.

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 saying... you are hurting us.

We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.

We cannot blame the white people any longer.

It is not for media or anyone of this time anymore to say whether I'm right or wrong.

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. Tell the media to stop asking me what I think about people who don't believe what I'm saying or feel that I'm too harsh or feel that I'm just running my mouth because I'm old.

Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls.

Don't ask me to soften my message.

Bill Cosby


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billcosby; cosby; culturewar; ebonics; english; illiteracy; inarticulate; obama2008; racialdivision
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To: Domicile of Doom
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.

Very well said. Haven't Hispanics already taken the place as the largest minority group?

41 posted on 03/22/2007 11:11:02 AM PDT by IDontLikeToPayTaxes
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To: shortstop

I blame Snoop-Doogety-Dog.

Peaceout.

RLTW


42 posted on 03/22/2007 11:23:27 AM PDT by military cop (military cop)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

My favorite is the Dr. Laura term - "sperm donor."


43 posted on 03/22/2007 11:39:10 AM PDT by Gil4 (Time Man of the Year 2006 - and I'm darned proud of it)
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To: HIDEK6

i believe that the correct spelling is " nome sa'in "


44 posted on 03/22/2007 11:56:59 AM PDT by dougstein
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To: IDontLikeToPayTaxes

Problem is blacks are killing each other too much. Otherwise they'd probably stay ahead of "hispanics" (a false racial group). Well, at least for a while. Always, if the barriers are put up and enforced seriously!


45 posted on 03/22/2007 12:48:37 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: Gil4

I like that.

But I still like the connotation of exactly what they are doing. A sperm donor can go to a "bank". Sires also spread disease.


46 posted on 03/22/2007 12:49:29 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: shortstop

Next time, provide a link to the Snopes article

http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/cosby.asp


47 posted on 03/22/2007 12:52:46 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Quick or Dead

Come on! This (lack of) style has been going for 15 years. Way past normal fads. Looks like it's just plain become a normal part of the culture.

I've given up hope that this garbage-looking "fad" will pass. It is beyond fad. It is a way of life.

God help my children, if I ever have any. So glad I missed the bullet of being in this "fad" group.


48 posted on 03/22/2007 12:53:00 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: shortstop

Bill Cosby told it like it is, and low and behold, we found out that a large portion of the black community didn't want to hear it.


49 posted on 03/22/2007 12:59:32 PM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody
http://evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=453
http://www.zippyvideos.com/6133418663411286/chappelle-keeping-real-video/
http://www.evtv1.com/player.aspx?itemnum=1002

Dave Chappelle clips of: When "Keeping it Real" Goes Wrong

My favorite is Brenda Johnson (the third one)

50 posted on 03/22/2007 1:13:31 PM PDT by Teacher317 (Are you familiar with the writings of Shan Yu?)
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To: shortstop

The same goes for all those in the South that say 'ain't.'


51 posted on 03/22/2007 1:16:22 PM PDT by trumandogz
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To: shortstop
Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African black American girls.
52 posted on 03/22/2007 2:10:07 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: taxed2death

Stupid wannabees!

Well, they B alright!


53 posted on 03/22/2007 2:11:05 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Without the welfare, blacks would probably be doing BETTER now than they were in the '40s, instead of worse.

No...

Without the welfare, blacks WOULD be doing BETTER now than they were in the '40s, instead of worse.

54 posted on 03/22/2007 2:12:51 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: hosepipe
The dumbing down of America is happening to ALL RACES..

Why????

(We all know HOW!)

55 posted on 03/22/2007 2:13:49 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: HIDEK6

WORD!


56 posted on 03/22/2007 2:14:20 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: reagan_fanatic; taxed2death

Hell, I have a niece who is white as milk, with red hair and Irish freckles, raised in a family so white it should be considered the Stereotypical Honky Family . . . and if you get her on the phone, you'd swear you had a ghetto queen on the other end.

The worst part is that I know she is capable of proper English; she used to speak it. This is a late-come habit, and one I despise.


57 posted on 03/22/2007 2:14:30 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: Billthedrill

Ifn you gots no babies; you gots no welfare!


58 posted on 03/22/2007 2:15:17 PM PDT by Elsie
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To: Billthedrill
Nah, it's "baby daddy."


59 posted on 03/22/2007 2:15:48 PM PDT by Xenalyte (Anything is possible when you don't understand how anything happens.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

No... he B da STUD!


60 posted on 03/22/2007 2:17:26 PM PDT by Elsie
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