Posted on 06/29/2005 7:30:23 PM PDT by Lando Lincoln
Bill Cosby is telling it like it is.....the black community better listen. He's trying to help.
--from another sista
When I was in college, we had a foriegn exchange student from Tanzania join up with the CRs. The guy despised American blacks. He said in Africa, they valued family, taking responsibility for your actions, and self-reliance. He was offended that they were calling themselves African Americans.
Sad and frightening. I'm guessing Cosby does not have the guts that ML King had, but I sure wish he did. There is no one else I can think of who has the power and desire to do it unless a Jesse Jackson had a "road to Damascus" moment and becomes a whistle-blower against his own industry.
Not a likely scenario, but God can work wonders.
"INCREDIBLE, astonishingly obvious bias RIGHT UP FRONT.
Bill wasn't basing his criticism on income group.
Shameful."
You have a right to your opinion as I do to mine. To me, Cosby is a saint, spreading a message that needs to get out via a spokesman the blacks respect.
You don't think that Cosby's comments cross economic barriers and the media is trying to portray him as ganging up on poor people?
Read it again, FRiend.
And they o this in Africa. I can't believe he had the gaul to say that in Africa they are so righteous. Look at Africa.
Yes he was- as he should have. The media can say or take it anyway they want to. Cosby was right to point out where the problem is. Middleclass blacks go to work everyday, they try to educate their kids, they care about their communities, they save money and so on and so on. He is pointing out the difference that so many of the posters on this board fail to recognize - that there are different black americas. There is the black america that wants a future and those that are lost. And Cosby knows where most of the lost ones are. He's talking to those people. He's not talking to all of black America. That is why so many black people are so upset with what he is saying; because he "is" pointing out the differences.
No.. he was basing it on income. Many blacks have control of their kids. He's talking to a specific group of people. and that is what most people are upset about. To many blacks it's like preaching to the choir. The blacks that need to hear the message have been singled out by Cosby.
Hateful as the left is, I have to wonder if the allegations against him have a political base.
OF COURSE the Left wants to silence him.
He's trying to instill self-respect and self-support among blacks. The more who begin respecting and supporting themselves, the worse it is for the Democrats, whose handouts have become just about the only reason anyone sane would vote for them.
Ours (1970) were two cousins from Kenya. Different country, same message.
Oh, and they both spoke with a "BBC" accent, and had a very hard time understanding SoCal blacks.
Good for BC.
Good for him.
Great response to the character assassins.
< No.. he was basing it on income. Many blacks have control of their kids. He's talking to a specific group of people. and that is what most people are upset about. To many blacks it's like preaching to the choir. The blacks that need to hear the message have been singled out by Cosby. >
I disagree. Blacks from every income level are letting their kids run wild (same is true of parents of all races). He speaks of the foul language especially. From my observation that has literally taken over with youth in this country. He's speaking to all. Would that all of us listen.
Need we say more?
Nothing could be more true. My neighborhood is filled with black families and it so disgusts me to see little black kids talking on a cell phones, buying candy with a food stamp credit card and then, the real kicker. The thing that bothers me the most of all, they arrogantly toss their garbage right on the street or sidewalk or parking lot or wherever they happen to be standing. That's the biggest slap in my face and I know they know that I feel that way, making it an even bigger slap in the face.
Message 12 before 'plantation' has been mentioned. We are doing better.
The teenagers in my neighborhood do the same and it's an affluent neighborhood. It's not a black thing. It's a teen thug thing.
Not only that, but the implication is that the current civil law suit has something to do with his much earlier extramarital affair. Seemingly in an effort to discredit him further.
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