Posted on 02/25/2010 9:17:18 AM PST by Mind Freed
I received this in an email. Not sure what the date was that he said this but it is a good read:
This is actually word for word what he said to a gathering of students who asked about the bailout in America Great response...
'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.
I took an English class at a community college to refresh myself before I began my university studies. I was one of five white people in the class of about 25 students. The rest of the class had about sixteen black people and the rest were Asian and Hispanic. I noticed that half of the blacks seemed different than the other half and I couldn't figure out why.
We were arranged in groups to work on a small project and I sat with four blacks. I realized why they seemed so different than the other blacks. They were from Africa. They told me they couldn't figure out why the other (American) blacks were not very motivated or disciplined. I asked them if they saw any American television programs. And they said in unison, "Oh yes, Bill Cosby!"
They told me that they loved the emphasis he placed on education. The students around me were planning careers in biochemistry, economics, nursing and plastic surgery. Needless to say I was impressed.
Teresa Heinz Kerry, African-American...?
Let’s drop the hyphens... Americans.
Remember the All in the Family episode where Archie first met Mike? It was a flashback
ARCHIE: What’s your nationality?
MIKE: I’m an American.
ARCHIE: No, no, I mean where are your people from?
MIKE: They’re from Poland.
(Audience laughs)
ARCHIE: That’d make you Polish then, huh.
OK, stop that right after the second line. As much as I’d hate to agree with a lib like “Mike Stivic” he’s right;
he’s an American. As am I...and my father, grandfather, etc.
I could say I’m English-American and in some ways it’d be true because my ancestors came to this country from England.
In the 1640s.
So yes, there is British blood in me so to speak but I
think of myself as an American, not English-American
or European-American.
We can take pride in coming from the old country way back
and cherish the traditions, cooking, and so on, but we
are Americans.
Cosby was born in Philadelphia. He’s an American.
(I like to joke that I’m a Native American. I was born in Lynn, MA, a part of America. So, Native American. Right?)
Stand up and cheer. An oldie but goodie.
I think you're wrong. They still want that link to Africa. On NPR recently, I heard a whole panel of black academes refer to themselves as Afrikaans. I was surprised.
Where are you from?
South America.
What’s that?
South America.
You don’t look like no South American to me.
I’m still from South America.
What part?
South Texas!
—From “Say, Man” by Bo Diddley, Checker Records #931, 1959
Yup! I remember that one!
He was at a podium giving a speech, IIRC.
His audience as “African” Americans, almost exclusively.
This is why I consider Bill Cosby to be my favorite liberal.
I’m not wrong. I was stating a fact about Blacks, I know.
Bill Cosby, wonderful man. Why can’t he be president? At least he can prove he was born here.
Probably not corrupt enough.
The coach said, "I know it's cold and there is snow on the field. But I don't want to see any of you putting your hands inside your inside the front of your pants to keep them warm. It's just not sportman like!"
Bill had slipped his hands inside his pants and the audience nearly fell off their chairs as they laughed.
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