Anyone...do you agree or disagree with what Bill Cosby says on this?

Question

"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

Where were you when he was 2 ? ?
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> Where were you when he was 12 ? ?
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> Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he
had a pistol ? ?
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> And where is the father ? ? Or who is his father ?
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> People putting their clothes on ba ckward:
> Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?
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> 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 ?
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> 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?
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> What part of Africa did this come from??
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> We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don't know a
thing about Africa
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> With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap,
and all of them are in jail.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
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> "We cannot blame the white people any longer."
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> Dr. William Henry "Bill" Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.

Answer 1

I think he's right. Absolutely. If the people who behave like his examples...would take accountability for their own actions and pick themselves up...and stop waiting for someone else to do it, or for a better excuse to come along...they might just MAKE something of themselves.

What gets me, is that I tutor kids in reading and I used to teach Pre-K.. MOST of the kids I tutor are African American and it IS in an 'at risk' neighborhood. Most of them are SO smart, but so many have parents who don't take an interest, don't take the time to sit with them and tap that potential. It's sad to see smart kids being 'dumbed down' by their own parents. I had one child (whom I absolutely ADORED) tell me once...after I had asked him several times to do something..."I heard what you said, you big honky!" Now....yes it really was a bit humorous at the time, but very sad that at 5 years old...he even knew that word. My feelings weren't hurt. He still loved me and knew I loved him back, and he had no REAL concept that it could be hurtful... but that's just SAD!

Another little boy informed me that I had no business teaching him to read because white people are stupid and he didn't need to learn to read 'from no white lady'. That is COMPLETELY his parents fault. Not only that, but he didn't even know his ABC's. He was only 6 and already had a chip on his shoulder that SCREAMED 'future gang member'. My God. Is that what they WANT for this boy?

Answer 2

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Answer 3

Bill has missed the big picture. Every last Muslim denies the deity of Jesus. The Christian faith is not about what we do to be good. It is about what Jesus did to forgive sinners and to supernaturally change their lives. Bill seems to be trying to establish the counterfeit one-world religion the Antichrist will use to catapult to power in the very last days. Shame on Bill Cosby for promoting the Whore of Babylon.

Answer 4

I really did not think , I would live to see the day when so many Black s agreed with B cosby!
I am highly encouraged and think things can certainly get better for every one. I am Indian.

Answer 5

Thanks S.W. for showing us an important Idea.And true words from an Honorable Man.And Thank you Mr Cosby... The anchor of perceived slavery has held the Black man static in a moving world.So his response to this non-movement is to re-enslave his brothers and sisters with music of thuggery,Drugs,prostitution and entanglement with the entitlement mentality till all around are suffering....Hope is lost but for a few...Is there not a reversal going on here that seems like de-evolution?

Answer 6

I agree with SOME of it.

Wearing a hate backwards and having "names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap" has nothing to do with race. I have never seen a black women (or any race for that matter) with 8 kids.
I do believe white supremacists would use this to fuel hate though it was well meaning.

Answer 7

He has a point, and it does pertain to many. However, there are forces that make it hard to live up to those challenges. How does a horrible school with no books, no heat, crumbling infrastructure give hope? This country must spend more on education and opportunity for all, and IF that is accomplished the all must be willing to put forth the effort.

Answer 8

I agree with him, but it doesn't matter what Bill Cosby says. It doesn't really matter what Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson say either. It's every individual person's personal choice to decide if they want to change the way they live their life.

Answer 9

The second to the last line "we cannot blame the the white people any longer" rings very true to me. I never asked ANYONE to wear their pants down around their crack and I never made anyone have babies out of wedlock that they can't possibly support.

What I HAVE done is raise my son with respect, manners and a sense of responsibility.

Answer 10

Black people in America are dysfunctional because they dont have a history and common culture .. They only have hip hop and Jays .