Bill Cosby: African-Americans 'Not Holding Up Their End of the Deal'

ABC News ^ | 29 June 2005

[Lando Lincoln]

Lando

[JennysCool]

strongly criticized low-income African-Americans

INCREDIBLE, astonishingly obvious bias RIGHT UP FRONT.

Bill wasn't basing his criticism on income group.

Shameful.

[JimSEA]

All of the apologies and all the rehashing of all the injustices (and Lord knows there were enough and outrageous), none of that will help without people taking hold of their own lives and running them in a responsible manner. Yell a Cosby all you want but he is telling the hard truth.

[traviskicks]

disagreements with cosby, but for the opposite reason of those on the left:
http://www.neoperspectives.com/billcosby.htm

[skimbell]

Cosby's pizzin the libs off pretty good here. There going to get madder that hell about his jumping the reservation. Watch for another rash of sex abuse accusations from the left.

Same ol' same ol'!

[adam_az]

WTF - Meanwhile he gave $1000 to Denise Majette in the 2004 election cycle.

http://www.issues2000.org/Senate/Denise_Majette.htm

Majette:

# Support a woman's right to choose. (Oct 2002)
# Voted NO on making it a crime to harm a fetus during another crime. (Feb 2004)
# Voted NO on banning partial-birth abortion except to save mother’s life. (Oct 2003)
# Voted NO on forbidding human cloning for reproduction & medical research. (Feb 2003)
# Rated 100% by NARAL, indicating a pro-choice voting record. (Dec 2003)

# Supports affirmative action. (Jul 2002)
# Voted NO on Constitutional Amendment banning same-sex marriage. (Sep 2004)
# Voted NO on protecting the Pledge of Allegiance. (Sep 2004)
# Voted NO on constitutional amendment prohibiting flag desecration. (Jun 2003)

# Rated 100% by the NEA, indicating pro-public education votes. (Dec 2003) (HAHAHAHAHAHA)

# Allow legalization for aliens working in US. (Jul 2002)
# Voted NO on reporting illegal aliens who receive hospital treatment. (May 2004)
# Rated 0% by FAIR, indicating a voting record loosening immigration. (Dec 2003)

[Paul Atreides]

He has lambasted "lower-economic people," parents who spend more on athletic shoes than education, and children who use poor English and curse constantly. He has said blacks need to stop blaming whites and take control of their children and their communities.

"Nine hundred kids enter many of these high schools, and 35 walk out with diplomas," Cosby told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. "The rest are in prison, pregnant or wandering around doing nothing."

Sounds to me like good advice, no matter the race.

[skimbell]

There=they're

[listenhillary]

There is supposed to be more coverage of Cosby on Primetime? Is that still on Friday nights?

[LoudRepublicangirl]

There are white people who could also listen to what he has to say. Some of the lower income whites in this country have fallen into the illegitimate birth trap, meth addiction, dropping out of highschool etc.

[kerryusama04]

I wish the Coz would put the blame where it belongs. It's all about gun control. After the end of the civil war laws started popping up prohibiting gun ownership and fencing classes for black folks. Fast forward to the present and what you have is a bunch of white democrats who have locked the black folks up in the worst neighborhoods, taken their guns away, feeding them food stamps and welfare to keep them down, and condemning their children to schools that are more like a Gulag than any beach front property in Cuba. The democrats have made slaves of the black folks again and this time they have convinced them it is for their own good.

Conservative beliefs, on the other hand, start out something like, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed"

Good Bless Bill Cosby.

[wvobiwan]

"No," Cosby said flatly. "I couldn't care less what you think of me as long as you begin to execute that which will save your children."

Now that is a truly wise man. Finally a black leader who's not a race baiter. The establishment 'plantation' black leaders like Jackson, Sharpton, Rengel, Mfume, etc. must hate him with a passion.

[wvobiwan]

Gun control? Seems like a pretty large leap there.

It's all about personal responsibility, and the politics of entitlement.

[CO Gal]

It's so much easier shooting the messenger then it is the message.

[listenhillary]

I think you misunderstood what he was getting at. Look for more dirt to be thrown at Cosby by the lieberals.

[Melpomene]

"Nine hundred kids enter many of these high schools, and 35 walk out with diplomas,"

HAH! He ought to come to my town, where 900 kids enter the high schools, and 850 graduate with diplomas. Of course, only about 50 out of the 850 can read and do math at a 3rd grade level, but hey, at least they have a high school diploma, right? I call our high schools "prison prep," because that's all they are.

[ladyjane]

There are white people who could also listen to what he has to say.

Very true. Whites, hispanics and blacks could all listen to what he has to say. However, the illiteracy, illegitimacy, and crime rate is higher among teenaged black children than it is for whites.

[coconutt2000]

Gun control and personal responsibility are linked issues. At its heart, the right to own guns is as much about personal empowerment and responsibility as it is about self-defense.

[CO Gal]

You're right, I wasn't clear. I meant it is easier for the libs to shoot the messenger (Cos) then defend against what he says. Looked good to my tired eyeballs though. : )

[listenhillary]

Been there..