[JustSayNoToNannies]

he said people judge him by how he dresses.

"It makes me upset. Just because I wear baggy pants don't mean I'm a thug.

So wise up and don't dress like one.

[Red Badger]

I'm not diminishing the outside factors that conspire against us. But I'm saying we need to address the issues that we can control.

I would dearly love to know what"outside factors" the writer is talking about. And just who in hell is conspiring against them? The only ones who have a vested interest in "keeping the black man down" is the DEMOCRATS and the poverty pimps like Jackson and Sharpton. If the black middle class was to suddenly blossom like a rose in the desert, the Dems and their sorry ilk would be toast................

[kinoxi]

It seems to me that a general ‘awakening’ is occurring with some of the individuals I meet in Baltimore (city). It could be wishful thinking, but it seems different.

[tsmith130]

The entitlement programs removed all need for fathers to act like fathers and destroyed the family structure. No need to have it when the government ‘supplies’ everything.

[Who dat?]

He said he carries a 2.8 grade-point average and wants to be a lawyer.

2.8? So he’s basically a “C+” student?

LOL.

Just bein' *real!*

[stm]

Blacks don’t want to admit that Bill spoke the truth because doing so would mean that they would have to take responsibility for their existence. The poverty pimps will never let them do that because it would destroy their power base. And it would prove them to be exactly what they are; race baiting, charlatan scam artists that profit from the quagmire that blacks are in. They are absolutely beneath contempt.

Not until blacks finally come to grips with the fact that they are 95% responsible for the quagmire that is their existence will things ever change for them. And that won’t happen until the poverty pimps assume room temperature, which cannot happen soon enough. The problem is not whitey, it is THEM. It’s the old addage that when you point your finger at someone, you have three more pointing back at you.

[DogBarkTree]

My wife and I have a wonderful lady who sits for my elderly mother in-law a couple of times a week. This lady also happens to be black and lives near Camden NJ. She told my wife that because she likes to take her 10 year old son to museums and on nature walks and such she and her son are scorned for acting like they are white. Black folks worst enemy these days isn't whitey with a burning cross. They are intent on keeping themselves down.

[BookmanTheJanitor]

Smith, 63, was outraged. The entertainment icon was being "uppity," she thought at the time. She stopped watching him on television afterward".......

"Now, I've gotten older and see more and more of what he was saying. What he was saying was true," Smith said of the comedian.

I guess 60 years old wasn't old enough for her to get it (shaking head).

[madprof98]

He said he carries a 2.8 grade-point average and wants to be a lawyer.

Doesn't sound stupid enough to do that. Better keep the carwash job.

[Right Wing Assault]

"keeps me in the books. I'm not that unusual. It's a lot of people like me."

Great, but spend a bit more time on normal grammer.

[A_Former_Democrat]

“People were upset because the truth hurts”

Speaks volumes, doesn’t it?

[CaptRon]

But, he said people judge him by how he dresses.

I had a job interview today. I wore a suit.

The car wash is his day job. He's also trying to make a go as a rapper.

Fortunately, I set the bar higher.

[Hyzenthlay]

Bill Cosby is one of my favorite comedians ever. Last year he came to my college, and a few silly liberals were complaining about his comments about black people (since then they’ve had John Ashcroft and Justice Roberts to complain about too lol) but me and my friends were sat in line at the campus box office in order to get good tickets - we all got front-row seats =)

[Physicist]

I recall my own feelings at the time. Cosby was right, but I cringed at his candor. It would only serve to invigorate those who would use his comments to fuel their own divisive rhetoric.

As if that were the important problem.

[Vince Ferrer]

If someone can't take Bill Cosby, I'd love to hear their opinion of Chris Rock: Who's more racist, Black people or White people? (Warning: lots of profanity)

[Dr.Deth]

Step one on the road to conservatism is embracing personal responsibility.

[ladyjane]

"It makes me upset. Just because I wear baggy pants mean I'm a thug.

And he wants to be a lawyer. That sounds realistic. /s

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from September 25, 2007.