Ebonics! Weird Names! $500 Shoes! Shrill Bill Cosby and the speech that shocked black America

Village Voice ^ | May 26 - June 1, 2004 | Ta-Nehisi Coates

[rocky88]

should only be a few days from now when Danny Glover or Harry Belafonte come out of the woodwork and accuse Cosby of being a "house-nigger" like they did to Colin Powell...

[JimSEA]

Cosby ventured down to Washington and ripped into the have-nots among us.

Many "have-nots" are that way because they "do-nothing" to correct the problems keeping them down. Cosby is being attacked for being right. The more "have-nots" there are, the larger the power base for the race-baiters like this Village Voice type.

[newgeezer]

Compared to Walter E. Williams, Thomas Sowell, Justice Clarence Thomas or Alan Keyes, Coz is a dyed-in-the-wool, liberal race-baiter.

But, when he can coax an article like this out of one of those people, he's obviously doing something right.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

In reality, blacks can have all the prosperity they want just by taking Cosby's advice.

Tell that to people like 50 Cent, who make millions rapping and grew up in the projects of NYC selling drugs, watching his Mom sell drugs, and getting shot 9 times.

What I'm trying to say is that I agree with Cosby, but he's irrelevant now. Some blacks just aren't going to go to college when they can make millions rapping or playing sports.

[Hildy]

Welcomed to our world, Mr. Cosby. The world where you're personally attacked for telling the truth. Your life will never be the same.

[oyez]

The other things are: stay off drugs cand alcohol, do not have chidern before you are married and finish high school.

[biblewonk]

But, when he can coax an article like this out of one of those people, he's obviously doing something right.

Definitely. If he made them mad he's definitely doing something right. He failed to mention 2 parent families, pulling their mf pants up, saying mf in every mf sentence, jobs vs the porch, responsibility and most of all, their own hatred for white people.

[pabianice]

Cosby had the last laugh. When his show went off the air, he sold the syndication rights for six hundred million dollars ($ 600,000,000.00). That done, the show disappeared. No one watched the reruns. The syndicators ate it all.

[hopespringseternal]

Black humor has always been crass, politically-incorrect, and filled with profanity and sex.

Fools don't know the difference between vulgarity and humor. Eddie Murphy can be and often is hilarious without being vulgar. Vulgarity is to comedy what sleaziness is to pop music. It isn't the product, it is the marketing that sells the product.

[Know your rights]

he's embarrassed by everymen

No, he's embarrassed by gutter trash.

[newgeezer]

their own hatred for white people

Coz can't claim too much superiority on that front. No matter what else he is, Coz is not color-blind.

[hopespringseternal]

Some blacks just aren't going to go to college when they can make millions rapping or playing sports.

Their odds would be better if they bought lottery tickets. Blacks are no more likely to get rich in sports or entertainment than whites. That they believe otherwise is just another con job.

[Dan from Michigan]

This reminds me a bit of what John Hughes said to the New York Irish in the 1800's.

[JimRed]

Morality is a pretty good answer.

Kinda' like abstinence; it works every time it's tried!

[BlkConserv]

Eddie Murphy can be and often is hilarious without being vulgar

Thanks. Eddie Murphy is making more money being in more family-oriented films than being in shoot-em ups.

Total transformation. I seriously thought his career was dead when he made that vampire movie.

[Know your rights]

Morality is a pretty good answer.

But it requires effort and responsibility.

[ChevyZ28]

No you aren't mistaken. I remember that episode, one of the classics, and had a good message on how to approach the death issue with small children.

[biblewonk]

Coz can't claim too much superiority on that front. No matter what else he is, Coz is not color-blind.

No one is but when you hate a race so much that you refuse to speak his language or adopt the values that he has even when they are good values, then you are really full of religion_of_peace level hatred.