Bill Cosby: Blacks can't speak English

WorldNetDaily ^ | 5/20/2004

[Pontiac]

Cosby said, according to Leiby: "Ladies and gentlemen, 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 won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.'

I have said it before on this forum, the Black community needs to cultivate the ‘Jewish mother’ philosophy in their culture.

The Jewish mothers have traditionally instilled in their children the work ethic that pushes the children to study hard get good grades and above all learn.

Presently a much more self-defeating culture exists in the Black community. It is ‘White’ to study hard and get good grades. You are sucking up to the man if you get good grades.

[Imal]

After the speech, Kweisi Mfume reported told Bill Cosby, "Who axed you, foo?"

[TheSpottedOwl]

I remember when Cosby's son was murdered, and I know where it took place. Skirball Road, off the 405 fwy in CA.

Let's not forget about all the fun he had being blackmailed by that girl. I can't remember if she turned out to be his daughter after all.

Proof that money and fame can't buy happiness. I'm glad he spoke out, though.

[ChefKeith]

Well maybe if the majority of them were not dealing crack and stayed in school they MIGHT learn something basic, and I'm not talking frickin' ebonics!

I'm a high school drop-out and while I'm no rocket engineer I can hold My own (and yes I'm white)

[devolve]

Bill Cosby slowly worked his way up the ladder working in small clubs.

He would bath and dress in tiny club dressing rooms.

Cosby fought his way to the top and did it with style and made America laugh when it really needed to.

I miss Bill Cosby's genius at old original routines.

He always had a wonderful talent because he worked at his craft, spoke great clear English, learned what his audience liked, was good with differnt voices.

His "Noah and the Flood" routine is is a Golden Oldie.

I recall almost driving off the road driving back from Lauderdale the first time I heard it.

And Cosby did not have to work "blue" to be funny.

Bob Newheart had much the same popularity with similiar material.

Bill Cosby made it big in comedy because he was a top performer.

Nat King Cole was a top flight performer for the same reasons.

Race had nothing to do with it pro or con; Cosby was no affirmative action lotto winner for sure.



Congrats Bill, America needs to hear the simple basic truth and you had the guts to do it.


As Noah said:


"Right!"


-- Good Night Fat Albert wherever you are!

[A CA Guy]

I'd rather those enablers lose their power than see an look on their face, they are dangerous for the people.

[A CA Guy]

Thanks

[TheSpottedOwl]

No I don't remember Jesse Jackson talking sense. That's a trip.

[heavy12773]

is that why they say crosby instead of cosby?

[Ruth A.]

Most blacks brought to the US as slaves never learned to speak English properly. Segregated schools did not teach it to them and so parents passed on the black dialect of English - some call it Ebonics - to their children generation after generation. It is not as if blacks one day decided to speak differently. They never spoke "High English"

When I was in school in the 60's and 70's, blacks knew how to speak proper English and they could slip in jive at will. English was their mother tongue. Their parents knew it, they teachers modeled it. Also, blacks have not lived in an entertainment vacuum. Proper English could be assimilated from television and radio about 20+ years ago. Now the untalented, hip hop, (c)rap has won over and the problem is has reemerged and entrenched.

Cosby has always spoken out against "blue" comedy. His last sitcom (early years, I stopped watching after that) repeatedly brought home the point that the children were entitled to nothing for which the parents had worked so hard to attain.

[dawn53]

Bill Cosby has an earned Masters and Doctorate in Education. Obviously education is one of his main interests. Notice his reference to "Hooked on Phonics."

[Gillmeister]

bump

Direct hit on Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX)......"Let me ax you this"......"Can I ax you a question"......

[Rate_Determining_Step]

> And Cosby did not have to work "blue" to be funny.

He was one of my parents favorite comedians. They saw him in the 60s in CA and just loved his act. They noted that he never cussed, instead relying on wit to carry his point.

[Lib-Lickers 2]

I was with him up to pound cake,,,,,,,wonder why he didn't mention adultery as one of the major problems in the black community?

[Recovering_Democrat]

Cosby, a pretty liberal guy is saying this?? Holy Toledo. Do I hear thundering hoofbeats? Are the Four Horsemen approaching?

[tkathy]

If there's one thing that the WOT has pointed out, it is the destructive nature of the politics of endless victimhood.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Wouldn't that have been worth the price of admission? Cosby was messing with Mfume's meal tickets!

No kidding! I'm glad he came there and ate Mfume's lunch!

[BigSkyFreeper]

Precisely. There are many successful blacks in America, Cosby being one of them, no reason why there shouldn't be more like him. Successful in life, that is.

[blam]

"strange? has this guy gone off the deep end?"

Don't know. The last I recall hearing about him was that he had given $23 million to the United Negro College Fund.

[mhking]

I would have my head handed to me if I made a similar statement in a similar venue.

There IS still a politically correct double standard. The difference here is that Cosby is someone that Mfume & Swygert (I love Howard Univ.; both the wife and I went to school there; but the staff and administration are loaded with leftists) thought was safe.

From my website yesterday:

Monday night, at Washington's Constitution Hall, Bill Cosby was part of a celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education decision.

Some of his comments, though, didn't sit well with members of the Soul Patrol.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal," he declared. "These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids -- $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.'...

"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English," he exclaimed. "I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... 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!"

The Post's Hamil Harris reports that Cosby also turned his wrath to "the incarcerated," saying: "These are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, [saying] 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?"

After Cosby's excoriation, NAACP head Kweisi Mfume came to the podium, accompanied by NAACP legal defense fund head Theodore Shaw and Howard University president H. Patrick Swygert. Their stony visages gave away their displeasure of Cosby's remarks.

Shaw told the crowd that most people on welfare are not African American, and many of the problems his organization has addressed in the black community were not self-inflicted. Figures. Taking responsibility is obviously not one of Shaw's strong suits.

All I can say is that it's about damn time that Cosby spoke up.