[shortstop]

Right on.

[Toddsterpatriot]

Hey, hey, hey!

[HarmlessLovableFuzzball]

Bill Cosby 2008.

[taxed2death]

I tend to agree with most of it....except for the fact that there's a heck of a lot of white kids who talk like that, wear clothes like that....etc...and they come from all socioeconomic backgrounds. They're unemployable too.

[RockinRight]

Yup.

[SouthernBoyupNorth]

Bill has always called it like he sees it. I like his thinking.

[Borges]

[Domicile of Doom]

One big thing he either didn't say or doesn't know is that the illegal immigrants from Mexico are making blacks a smaller minority. In a generation or two at the current rate of influx, blacks will be a curiosity, not a minority with any voice.

[Thombo2]

More wisdom from the Coz.IMO,too little,too late.Do the people who need to hear the message listening?

[BaylorDad]

Sometimes the truth hurts. Put this message in a rap song and maybe the people this message is targeted to might hear it.

Unfortunately it is cool to be dumb and stupid because we shouldn't infringe on anyones right to be lazy.

[Spok]

"We cannot blame the white people any longer."

Except the white people who are economically and politically invested in keeping these people poor and dependent on government programs.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Cos for President!


"People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads throwing that all away."


You know, this is a really good point.

The really scary thing is blacks as a community were doing so much better morally and everything else before the '60s. Better educated (in reality) and better behaved, better morals.

It's ironic things have worsened since the '60s. The civil rights thing was good, but the welfare thing came at the same time. Without the welfare, blacks would probably be doing BETTER now than they were in the '40s, instead of worse.

[reagan_fanatic]

He's absolutely right. Far too many kids talk like this and see nothing wrong with it. What they fail to understand is this type of behavior is nothing but a one-way ticket to permanent poverty and hopelessness. Unfortunately, only the black community can fix this problem, because anything whitey says or does about the issue will automatically be labelled 'racist'.

Cosby's influential in the black community, and it is a hopeful sign that someone of his prominence is standing up and saying what needs to be said. And he's saying it in plain English.

[trappedinnj]

"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. "

I was always curious if Mr Cosby supports school vouchers. I've never heard him come out for that, just curious.

[hosepipe]

And STILL Bill Cosby is a democrat.. go figure..
The dumbing down of America is happening to ALL RACES..
America has no idea Socialism is Slavery by Government..

[agere_contra]

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap

Cosby snuck in an extra message here. Good for him.

[mborman]

I agree with his statements; however, Fat Albert talk lak dat!

[Billthedrill]

Today a woman has eight children with eight different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

The locution is, I believe, "babyfadda." Quite popular these days - and quite revealing.

[M203M4]

I can imagine what the welfare establishment "real blacks" (including the ghetto trash whites, hispanics, asians, etc) and their "leaders" like Sharpton must think of Bill Cosby. "Uncle Tom". A being from another planet - not a True Representative of blackitude. One must dare not blame a culture of failure for failure itself.

Cosby should dig a little deeper here. He nailed one side of the cultural failure - what of the other? The left has a message for everyone who is not white, male, and born rich - you are incapable of making anything worthwhile of yourself unless the government acts as your crutch. How empowering! Kneel down and eat from their hands, and live in dependence of them. In return, you can drift through life a total idiot and never make anything of yourself, and be shielded from most personal responsibility.

In the diseased thinking of some, being color blind is now racism. Apparently only racists want EVERYONE to be treated equally, with no group given special benefits because of their skin color. Try to hold everyone to the same standard? Racist! Or, as Obama puts it, "social Darwinism". What a backhanded comment to make - to say that certain kinds of people would "die out" if the welfare state was dismantled. Exactly what does such a statement imply? And what has this sort of thinking helped ensconce?

[popdonnelly]

It must kill Cosby, who has a Masters in Education from Columbia University, to have to listen to this stuff.

[paltz]

Cosby began to speak his mind more often on this particular issue after his son Ennis had been murdered in a car jacking in Los Angeles.