‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’

Atlantic Monthly ^ | May 2008 | Ta-Nehisi Coates

[george76]

Last summer, in Detroit

[rock_lobsta]

Tomorrow I’ll be coming to work dressed as the St. Pauli Girl and calling myself Heidi.

Don't forget the beer... and a camera! LOL!!!

[Cecily]

I will have to wear a Viking hat with horns (Sweden), a kilt (Scotland), and carry a Burberry bag (England). Plus, I’m changing my name to Cecily Fiona Carlsson.

Keeping it real, European-American style.

[Alberta's Child]

These Cosby rants are extraordinary -- and extraordinarily entertaining, too (because he hits the nail right on the head in a way that very few people can).

These are the words of someone who feels utterly betrayed by "his people" because he himself marched in the civil rights era and had rocks thrown at him for daring to think that black kids had a right to be educated, too . . . only to look around him and see a black culture in which education, literacy, and standards of decency are actually MOCKED.

Sportswriter Jason Whitlock (a black man himself) described black culture today as "counter-evolutionary."

[oprahstheantichrist]

"“My problem,” Cosby told the audience, “is I’m tired of losing to white people."

You are NOT losing to white people Mr. Cosby, you are losing to the illegals that have invaded your cities and have stolen your JOBS!

[Salamander]

This month, I'll be paying homage to my Danish ancestors.

Next month, maybe I'll do the Irish, Scots or Welsh....:)>

Hildamander

[JSDude1]

The sad thing is many whites (indeed the pop-culture) is infatuted with doing that. It’s almost like they have an affinity for failure!

[Appleby]

Au contraire. The pregnant girl is referred to not by feminine words such as “a girl”, “the mother” or “she”, but “a person” of indeterminate gender referred to in the third person plural. The boy, (who is not the father of the UNMARRIED CHILD, by the way, but the UNMARRIED FATHER of the child), is referred to by three (count them) masculine nouns and pronouns: “boy”, “father” and “he”. It just strikes me as weird that Cosby would take such pains to identify the male as masculine and obscure the female’s femininity.

[Parmy]

‘This Is How We Lost to the White Man’

They didn't lose to the White Man. They lost to themselves by abandoning values, etc. and opting for the free money, free food stamps, dissing education, dissing honor and so on.

They have no one to blame but themselves. Just because someone, i.e. government, says to do something, one does not have to go and do it.

[Right Cal Gal]

If you work in San Francisco, alas, no one will notice...

[PLMerite]

Wow, where can I find me one of them?

[MrB]

“dissing education, dissing honor”

and not respecting the value of speaking proper English as well... :)

[Responsibility2nd]

Dittoes to the stolen jobs remark.

I learned a long time ago that a great society must have a secondary working class to do the menial jobs.

America used to import these workers from Africa. Now we get them from Mexico.

This was a long, long article. And I read every word. One thing I found missing:

And that is at the present rate of black abortion, black on black murder, the ever increasing black male population in our prisons, the black drop-out rates, the collapse of the black family, etc. etc. and on and on..... There will soon be no blacks in America.

Their culture, their influence... all gone. Replaced - for better or worse - by Hispanics.

Blacks in America are imploding.

[Hoffer Rand]

No kidding. Son of the couple next door is a good example. Pants hanging way off his behind, underwear in FULL view. In his mid to late 20s. Can’t keep a job. Didn’t finish college. Still lives at home. His current goal in life is he’s fixing up a car for some “pimp my ride” contest, where the focus is on the sound system. His plan is to have the sound system set to instantly blow every window out of the car the second he turns the stereo on in front of the judges.

Let’s see-dump $5K into a car, specifically to blow all the windows out of it in the hopes you win enough prize money to replace all the windows.

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Yawn.

[envisio]

Exactly.... if they got a job....no more handouts.

These people have as much or more than I do and they don’t have to do a thing for it. I work all day and stop at the store for a can of beans and have to wait in line behind some bohemouth that just rolled out of bed with a whole buggy full of food......whipping out the gummit food card.

I feel like going to her house and asking what’s for supper. After all, I paid for it!

[denydenydeny]

"Those people are not Africans. They don’t know a damned thing about Africa— with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail.”

I'm glad there is a Bill Cosby. Every time he opens his mouth he says something that would end a white person's career if he'd said it.

[adorno]

Amazing. Anyone care to guess why he’s still a lefty Democrat?

Could it be that, in order to reach a certain group, that you have to be like them, act like them, or sympathize with them?

If Cosby were to declare himself a republican or conservative, most blacks would automatically dismiss him as the "enemy" or "one of them" or "an uncle Tom". No doubt many of the already dismiss Cosby as an "uncle Tom", but to officially become or declare yourself "one of them" would cause a great number of blacks to tune him out. But, the liberals would have a field day with a republican Cosby, who they would accuse as being out of touch with the real black experience. Blacks are not allowed to be republican. Period. Labels are sometimes counter-productive.

[pbear8]

Cecily Fiona Carlsson

CFC? That's been banned.

[Doohickey]

Where do you work? :)

[B-Chan]

One of my personal heroes.