Bill Cosby has done it again...

Voted4Reagan

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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?

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 .....

I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
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, you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard..
We cannot blame the white people any longer.'

~Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.
 
Time to dispel a stupid liberal myth

<---Liberal

I actually agree with Dr. Cosby on what he said about accountability. I believe we as a society out to retain accountability for what we say and do and cannot blame the other for our own misfortunes. Where I disagree with Dr. Cosby is this notion of "breaking out of the cycle" and not addressing the social-environmental factors that make this issue within the black and brown communities cyclical. Unfortunately, victimhood within impoverished communities riddled with gang violence, drugs, and prostitution will always keep members of those communities complacent because victimhood is comfortable because it turns the individual away from personal responsibility and places it on another. But despite Dr. Cosby's comment about taking responsibility that doesn't alleviate the truth in that systemic racism still exist and will always exist although not at the level in the 40's 50's and 60's, it still exist.

The main thing to combat these issues is to break habits. Simply making speeches about what "blacks ought to do" is not enough. These are habits that people need to break. But Bill Cosby is a black conservative so the limits of how much I will agree with him extends to aforementioned comment above. But he has very little room to talk seeing how he himself isn't donating in the black communities jobs and other resources to uplift the community. All I see in Los Angeles is Magic Johnson, and other small black entrepreneurs who donate in the community, not just starbucks, but rebuilding schools, libraries, bookstores etc.
 
Time to dispel a stupid liberal myth

<---Liberal

I actually agree with Dr. Cosby on what he said about accountability. I believe we as a society out to retain accountability for what we say and do and cannot blame the other for our own misfortunes. Where I disagree with Dr. Cosby is this notion of "breaking out of the cycle" and not addressing the social-environmental factors that make this issue within the black and brown communities cyclical. Unfortunately, victimhood within impoverished communities riddled with gang violence, drugs, and prostitution will always keep members of those communities complacent because victimhood is comfortable because it turns the individual away from personal responsibility and places it on another. But despite Dr. Cosby's comment about taking responsibility that doesn't alleviate the truth in that systemic racism still exist and will always exist although not at the level in the 40's 50's and 60's, it still exist.

The main thing to combat these issues is to break habits. Simply making speeches about what "blacks ought to do" is not enough. These are habits that people need to break. But Bill Cosby is a black conservative so the limits of how much I will agree with him extends to aforementioned comment above. But he has very little room to talk seeing how he himself isn't donating in the black communities jobs and other resources to uplift the community. All I see in Los Angeles is Magic Johnson, and other small black entrepreneurs who donate in the community, not just starbucks, but rebuilding schools, libraries, bookstores etc.

So his support of the following charities, means he's not doing enough?

Airlift Research Foundation
Children's Miracle Network Hospitals
Hello Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation
Jackie Robinson Foundation
Jumpstart
Keep A Child Alive
Robert F Kennedy Memorial

And his support of the following causes, isn't enough either?
AIDS & HIV
Children, Education
Family/Parent Support
Health, Human Rights
Literacy
Veteran/Service Member Support
 
Cosby didn't grow up poor and isn't speaking from experience.


Which isn't true but would be relevant because....?


BTW, did you grow up poor?



Cosby was born and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is one of four sons born to Anna Pearl (née Hite), a maid, and William Henry Cosby Sr., who served as a sailor in the U.S. Navy.


During much of his early childhood, Cosby's father was away in the U.S. armed forces and spent several years fighting in World War II.


Cosby was working before and after school, selling produce, shining shoes, and stocking shelves at a supermarket to help out the family.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Cosby#Early_life


"he grew up in abject poverty"


http://albumlinernotes.com/Bill_Cosby.html
 
Did anyone here not know that the ghetto setting of the FAT ALBERT cartoon was the neighborhood that Cosby grew up in as a Child?
 
Did anyone here not know that the ghetto setting of the FAT ALBERT cartoon was the neighborhood that Cosby grew up in as a Child?

Did anyone not know that he grew up in a two-parent home; went to a magnet school; had part-time jobs; joined the Navy; went to college; earned degrees, etc. The point is that he didn't grow up "ghetto" like those he describes in his article.
 
Did anyone not know that he grew up in a two-parent home; went to a magnet school; had part-time jobs; joined the Navy; went to college; earned degrees, etc. The point is that he didn't grow up "ghetto" like those he describes in his article.


Because your spidey senses say so?


Link, or slink.
 
Did anyone not know that he grew up in a two-parent home; went to a magnet school; had part-time jobs; joined the Navy; went to college; earned degrees, etc. The point is that he didn't grow up "ghetto" like those he describes in his article.

He grew up in Abject Poverty in a Philadelphia slum.
 
He grew up in Abject Poverty in a Philadelphia slum.

Cosby grew up in a poor Philadelphia neighborhood, seeing little of his father who was a mess steward in the Navy. Cosby himself left high school in 10th grade to join the Navy, and later received his diploma from a correspondence course while still in the service. He attended Temple University on a football scholarship...


http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=892020

But Christiekins of Pittsburgh says different.

Cosby didn't grow up poor.
 
Cosby didn't grow up poor and isn't speaking from experience. So his opinion and $1 will buy a cup of coffee at McDonald's.

With respect, Bill Cosby is not worthy to speak about the black community? That I find difficult to understand. And I don't mean this at you personally but white women are saying Bill Cosby can't speak about the black community?
 
Christiekins and other guilty white liberals have a responsibility to speak for those they deem "voiceless", don't 'cha know?
 
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