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Black leaders must choose between criminals and victims (Gregory Kane)
The Baltimore Sun ^ | 5/29/04 | Gregory Kane

Posted on 05/29/2004 2:17:26 PM PDT by T-Bird45

THE NEXT time a group of black folks invites somebody with the last name of Cosby to speak anywhere, you can be sure it'll be Camille Cosby, not her husband, Bill.

A few years back, after the Cosbys' only son, Ennis, was killed by a Russian immigrant who had racist attitudes toward black people, Camille Cosby published an op-ed piece blaming whites. It was white America, Camille Cosby wrote, who taught her son's killer to hate blacks. She even drew a connection to President Ulysses S. Grant's picture on the $50 bill and his ownership of two slaves - who became his legal property after he married his wife - to the gunman pulling the trigger.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: billcosby; brownvboard; cosbyspeech; segregation
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I love reading this type of not-so-common sense from Mr. Kane. And I especially appreciate Mr. Cosby putting in the face of the NAALCP and other societies for the preservation of victimhood.
1 posted on 05/29/2004 2:17:28 PM PDT by T-Bird45
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To: T-Bird45
Cosby sure kicked the hornets nest. It's time for black folk to talk amoungst themselves, because as we all know, whites cannot speak on these subjects without being labeled negatively.

I heard the other day an articulate woman call Larry Elder's radio show to offer her praise for Cosby because most of her life she has been scorned by many blacks for "talking white." It really makes you think.

2 posted on 05/29/2004 2:23:00 PM PDT by Mister Baredog ((The French can"t even build an airport))
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To: T-Bird45

Liked This:

Black leaders who constantly lament the plight of the black criminal...have a choice to make. Either they support young black men like William Thomas, who was critically wounded in a shooting at Randallstown High School early this month, and Rio-Jarrell Tatum, the promising Polytechnic Institute graduate killed on Baltimore's streets two years ago this week, or they support the black men who shot them.

Our peerless leaders need to pick one group or the other. They can't support both because the two groups have opposing agendas.


3 posted on 05/29/2004 2:24:22 PM PDT by stands2reason ( During the cola wars, France was occupied by Pepsi for six months.)
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To: T-Bird45
When the NAACP LDEF filed a lawsuit in North Carolina in 1997 for some blacks who opposed statewide promotion exams, the organization made victims of some of the same people Cosby criticized in his remarks. The LDEF did every Afro-American a disservice with that lawsuit.

That's the whole purpose. If NAACPLDEF actually did things that were in the best interests of blacks, there would eventually be no need for a NAACPLDEF. It's called self-preservation.

4 posted on 05/29/2004 2:25:30 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all)
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To: T-Bird45

Actually, even Bill Maxwell (a local columnist who got taken on by the Tampa/St. Pete's paper because he was black and liberal) wrote a truly enraged article a couple of days ago attacking blacks in St. Petersburg (FL) because a bunch of black thuglets had thrown a cinder block through the window of a car driven by a white woman who stopped at a light in a black neighborhood, and had then proceeded to pound on the car, shriek "white bitch," etc. The woman (who was accompanied by her husband and terrified children) was a doctor who does a tremendous amount of volunteer work in that neighborhood, and he pointed out that this white woman had done a heck of a lot more than any of the "black leaders" of the area.

Maybe there's a change coming...


5 posted on 05/29/2004 2:28:13 PM PDT by livius
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To: Mister Baredog
I heard the other day an articulate woman call Larry Elder's radio show to offer her praise for Cosby because most of her life she has been scorned by many blacks for "talking white." It really makes you think.

One of my roommates at college was in the same predicament; the insistence on a uniform mindset was ferocious.

6 posted on 05/29/2004 2:31:03 PM PDT by niteowl77
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To: T-Bird45

Just were did this reprehensible practice of trading and exploiting humans as property originate? You guessed it folks, Africa. For many centuries arab traiders ventured to the dark continent to replenish their stocks of slave labor, that black africans were only too happy to provide for spices, textiles and other valuables. Only much more recently did europeans get into the act, and then it was europeans and later the US that made trafficking in humans illegal. The practice continues in Africa and the middle east to this day. So if anyone gives this white american any grief over slavery, they can shove it where the sun don't shine.


7 posted on 05/29/2004 2:32:39 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: edskid

Sadly, due to P C speech, the Truth is a hate speech.


8 posted on 05/29/2004 2:35:39 PM PDT by Ramonan (You never get something for nothing)
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To: T-Bird45
Dumb headline! Black leaders are NEVER concerned about choices between criminals and victims. The black leaders only choose the alternatives that are best for them, personally. Victims or criminals mught have an incidental gain in the decision of a black leader but the core interest is ALWAYS his own.

What ever happened with the night club in Chicago that was own by a friend of Jesse's? There was a fire. There was another Chicago club where a balcony fell. Many dead in both cases. There were no subsequent choises for victims or criminals because both clubs were owned by black leaders.

9 posted on 05/29/2004 2:37:41 PM PDT by Tacis (,)
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To: T-Bird45
The magazine he was referring to is the now defunct

Emerge.

It's one of the holdings recently acquired by a black entrepreneur who shall remain nameless here.

Anyway, Kane is a great columnist. Not up to par with his predecessors, Schuyler or Mencken, but still fantastic. Especially if you compare him to the rest of the Sun's editorial page, which is execrable.

If you want to check out Horowitz's take on the Camille Cosby incident, you need to get yourself a copy of "Hating Whitey", a collection of David Horowitz essays dealing with race, academe and his drift from his radical roots. The essay that touches on the Cosby incident-in the context of racial conspiracies devised to further inflame interracial tensions-is entitled Racial Paranoia.

10 posted on 05/29/2004 2:40:25 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid ("I'm gonna' be iron. Like a lion in Zion. Gonna' be iron. Like a lion in Zion.")
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To: ItsonlikeDonkeyKong

I pronounced a curse upon Emerge Magazine for featuring a caricature of Clarence Thomas as a lawnjockey. It worked I'm glad to say. Not to mention ripping the magazines then putting them back in the newsstand hehehe.


11 posted on 05/29/2004 2:45:48 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: livius

I only hope so. But have you ever checked out the "black commentator" website? This is the absolute nexus of anti-white hatred that infects the minds of so-called black "leaders".


12 posted on 05/29/2004 2:51:31 PM PDT by boop
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To: cyborg
Heh.

They used have that in the racks at my h.s. library, along with copies of National Review. Go figure.

Anyway, I never paid much attention to it when it was in circulation.

My family did subscribe to "Jet" for a year though.

13 posted on 05/29/2004 2:54:03 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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To: ItsonlikeDonkeyKong

My mom used to get Jet too. It's one of the few magazines I'd look through. I don't buy magazines anymore. Most of them are fluff.


14 posted on 05/29/2004 2:56:47 PM PDT by cyborg
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Yeah, I suppose.

I always liked that centerfold Jet places in the middle of their magazine. It's too bad, but by about fifteen, the idea of looking at a picture with a woman who was just wearing a bikini wasn't as exciting for me.

I remember a really funny moment when I ran into this girl from my acting class in my campus bookstore. Anyway, she was sitting there flipping through Cosmo or Elle, or one of those stupid fashion mags. After I approached her and asked her what she was reading, she said: "Oh, nothing. Just...like current affairs and stuff.

I thought it was hilarious. What was I gonna' do scold her? I don't know why people expect me to some kind of intellectual snob. C'mon, my hero is Adam Carolla, for goodness sake.

15 posted on 05/29/2004 3:06:32 PM PDT by The Scourge of Yazid
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16 posted on 05/29/2004 3:30:38 PM PDT by mhking ("Enterprise" finale: Yeah, we saved Earth, but I hate Illinois Nazis...)
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To: Mister Baredog
Cosby sure kicked the hornets nest. It's time for black folk to talk amoungst themselves, because as we all know, whites cannot speak on these subjects without being labeled negatively.

No, it's time for whites to start talking back. Whenever I'm being harassed or assaulted by racist blacks )or less commonly, racist Hispnics) in NYC, some white "liberal" inevitably pops up to show them his support. I usually shout at the whites, "You white Uncle Tom!" or "You white Aunt Jemima!" If so many whites hadn't become cowards, and permitted the white Uncle Toms and Aunt Jemimas to get away with supporting black racism, race relations would not be as bad as they are.

17 posted on 05/29/2004 3:38:59 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: livius

Do you have a link for that article?


18 posted on 05/29/2004 3:43:32 PM PDT by mrustow
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To: mrustow

Speaking of white uncle toms, Ron Kuby called Bill Cosby an 'elitist' for what he said. *LOL* All Ron wants to do is ensure a steady stream of clients!


19 posted on 05/29/2004 3:49:28 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: mrustow

There's a thread about it on FR somewhere today.


20 posted on 05/29/2004 3:50:08 PM PDT by cyborg
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