We Can't Blame White People- by BILL COSBY

[Red]

We Can't Blame White People --written 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'...



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.



People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads talking 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?



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?



How can you expect to make a living and support yourself when no one works? Parents don't work. Children don't work. No education. No skills. No accountability. No responsibility.

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, you're hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.



We cannot blame the white people any longer.

[pushpills]

I love coz. he made his money off being cheesy, but he's no cheesy dope. saw him at u of I a few years back and he was catering to adults, and was fall-down hilarious. Good to have a black man that can say things that, if said by a white person, would be considered kkk speak.

p.s. this speech is about 2 yrs old.

[Trev]

Originally Posted by Red

How can you expect to make a living and support yourself when no one works? Parents don't work. Children don't work. No education. No skills. No accountability. No responsibility.

Nailed it!

[Vick]

I think that piece is old and not sure if Cosby really wrote it

It's not a black white issue

Substitute lower income for black and working class for white and it's still true

[Nickatilynx]

We live in a time that celebrates whores and ignorance.

Fucked if I know why......

;-)))))

[MorganGrayson]

I remember hammering at my kids "whether or not you think you want to go to college *isn't* the issue here. Whether or not you have the *option* to go to college is. You dont' know what you're going to want to do when you graduate, so keep your options open and do your damned homework."

Bad parenting stopped being a race or economic issue a long time ago. I once asked my kids "don't you know *anybody* whose parents are still married to each other?" They mentioned one kid, whom I knew about, as his parents were heavily active in the PTA. Then both of them sat and thought...and thought...and finally said "nope." Wow, I said. All their friends were either from single parent households or flung back and forth between households like ping-pong balls.

I don't know what the hell happened, either, Nick. Sure, Brittany Spears can dance her little naked ass off on television...but the parents have control over whether or not their grade school daughters dress like that.

I feel a coming on, so I'm clicking the "off" button on myself.

[Nickatilynx]

Originally Posted by MorganGrayson

I remember hammering at my kids "whether or not you think you want to go to college *isn't* the issue here. Whether or not you have the *option* to go to college is. You dont' know what you're going to want to do when you graduate, so keep your options open and do your damned homework."

Bad parenting stopped being a race or economic issue a long time ago. I once asked my kids "don't you know *anybody* whose parents are still married to each other?" They mentioned one kid, whom I knew about, as his parents were heavily active in the PTA. Then both of them sat and thought...and thought...and finally said "nope." Wow, I said. All their friends were either from single parent households or flung back and forth between households like ping-pong balls.

I don't know what the hell happened, either, Nick. Sure, Brittany Spears can dance her little naked ass off on television...but the parents have control over whether or not their grade school daughters dress like that.

I feel a coming on, so I'm clicking the "off" button on myself.

umm...whores and ignorance..
"fucked if I know"

......


ah well.

[MorganGrayson]

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

umm...whores and ignorance..
"fucked if I know"

......


ah well.

Shit.
I apologize. I'm having a very bad day.
That was clever and I should have gotten it. My bad.

[Dravyk]

Originally Posted by Vick

It's not a black white issue

Substitute lower income for black and working class for white and it's still true

Precisely!!!!

Originally Posted by Nickatilynx

We live in a time that celebrates whores and ignorance.

Alas, also very true!

Many folks think "South Park" is horrible. Guess what? It often is. Admitedly. But for those who don't watch, are missing what is sometimes sheer brilliance -- and I mean both words, sometimes, and not just brilliant, but very brilliant -- in their observations

This whole whore phenomenon was amazingly put into prospective in an episode from last year when the toy stores (in the cartoon) were pushing something like the Ho Kit ... and all these eight year old girls were in school, wearing too much lipstick and eyeliner and prostituting the boys in the school hallways. And natch Paris Hilton was showing up at the toy stores to promote it.