by Bill Cosby:
They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.
Everybody knows it's important to speak English...
except these knuckleheads.
You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around.
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.
These people are not parenting.
They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics.
I am talking about these people who cry...
when their son is standing there in an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18?
And, how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?
And where is the father?
Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
People with their hats on backward,
pants down around the crack,
isn't that a sign of something?
Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?
Isn't it a sign of something
when she has her dress all the way up
and got all type of needles piercing
going through her body?
What part of Africa did this come from?
We are not Africans.
Those people are not Africans;
they don't know a thing about Africa.
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education
is no longer the white person's problem.
We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed.
Today a woman has eight children
with eight different 'husbands' --
or men or whatever you call them now.
We have millionaire football players
who cannot read.
We have million-dollar basketball players
who can't write two paragraphs.
We as black folks have to do a better job.
Someone working at Wal-Mart
with seven kids saying...
you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other
to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.
It is not for media or anyone of this time
anymore to say whether I'm right or wrong.
It is time, ladies and gentlemen,
to look at the numbers.
Fifty percent of our children are dropping out
of high school.
Sixty percent of the incarcerated males
happen to be illiterate. There's a correlation.
Tell the media to stop asking me what I think about people who don't believe what I'm saying or feel that I'm too harsh
or feel that I'm just running my mouth because I'm old.
Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls.
Don't ask me to soften my message.
Can't Blame White People
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GalvestonDuck wrote:Others mods might opt to disagree, but I like Cos and don't see anything wrong with what he said.
It's an old story though.
CVW, I didn't see anything insulting in what J said either. He was making a point about what Cosby said about illiteracy. It was in no way directed at you personally.
Thank you Shawn. I happen to like Cosby as well, ever since his first video ....what was it called?? Bill Cosby Himself??
I know its old, but these things have a way of re-surfacing.
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because most people are afraid to admit when they have done something bad/wrong...thats why most people dont like the truth...nholley wrote:How can the truth be wrong? Why is everyone so scared of the truth? It is possible that peoples willingness to not say what needs to be said causes more problems...sometimes the truth hurts but it still needs to be said.
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I agree shawnGalvestonDuck wrote:Others mods might opt to disagree, but I like Cos and don't see anything wrong with what he said.
It's an old story though.
CVW, I didn't see anything insulting in what J said either. He was making a point about what Cosby said about illiteracy. It was in no way directed at you personally.
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brunota2003 wrote:because most people are afraid to admit when they have done something bad/wrong...thats why most people dont like the truth...nholley wrote:How can the truth be wrong? Why is everyone so scared of the truth? It is possible that peoples willingness to not say what needs to be said causes more problems...sometimes the truth hurts but it still needs to be said.
The truth doesn't have to be bad/wrong/negative.
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