Privately: "Hey, Bill stole my lines!!"
I will give up my pound cake when they pry it from my cold, dead hands...
wow!!
Guess he will be called an uncle tom now for telling it like it is, you are so right Mr.Cosby.
"Noah!"
225 posts too slow:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1138989/posts
Seriosly, it's important that the message of personal responsibility be coveyed by someone of Bill Cosby's social stature. This man is more than your typical actor or entertainer, and he probably has more popular clout than more conservative blacks like Alan Keyes or Starr Parker.
I remember part of one of his many stand-up routines, in which he mimicked a little kid: "You told me for to not for to drink your Coke!" He knows the problem and understands people.
'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is'
I believe that they go out of their way to talk like this, it sets them apart from whites, and it is cool to them. They are always coming up with gimmicks to be separate, like wearing their hats crooked, (which to me looks stupid) rap, and so on. It's not really hard to speak English correct, they just don't want to.
Mfume’s job - and income - are dependant on maintaining the victim status of poor black Americans. He had to object.
Young blacks aren’t being hired into high paying status job - because they can’t communicate - and it’s all the fault of the evil white folks holding them down by forcing them to speak Ebonics.
Young blacks are imprisoned at a much higher rate than young whites - and it’s the evil white folk’s fault because this segment of the black community consider prison time a rite of passage.
I wonder if C-SPAN was there to record this?
They sure were for last weekend's Tavis Smiley's "blame-everyone-but-me" hate fest. Hours and hours of it.
Cosby is not an "authentic" black. He be unaware of Ebonics and that black scholars have determined that Ebonics is genetic.
I put 110% of the blame on the National Education Assodciation which has no interest in teaching children how to read, write, speak or compute. They dominate the programs that ultimately wind up in the classromm -- and focus on diversity, gay-is-OK, anti-America, pro-socialisim, wacky-environmentalism, etc. Poor, minority children are most crippled by this system.
It really is a signficant problem for black children, though. Many speak a distinct dialect and aren't exposed to "the Queen's English" until school, at which point it's like a second language to them.
We shovel money currency into education then ever before and we rank, what 14th in the world. Parents today are more worried over what their new car is going to be then if their child can read or write.
Communication through either verbal or written means is one of the most important qualities a person could have. What Mr. Cosby said doesn't just apply to Blacks, young or old, but to every single person on Earth. If we can not effectively communicate, we have lost all.