Lets write an article about maybe how you should pull up your pants, go to school regularly, study very hard and get a useful education. Don't get a degree in air hockey or sociology or journalism. Go for something challenging like engineering or computer science. Avail yourself to what America is already offering you.
Lets continue the article about acting like a responsible, dignified person. Being poor or past racial injustice is no excuse for being a thug/criminal. There are millions of poor people around the world. They don't sit on their rear ends feeling entitled, and going around being a thug. Respect has to be earned. Preceptions are changed when you change them yourself. You cannot force new preceptions on other people. Looting and pillaging is not the way to earn respect whether it is done in your own neighborhood or someone else's.
The rest of America is already paying for a lot of free stuff. For once they would like to save a bit of money for their own children. After all, scholarships are not readily available to them. They would like to send their children who have worked very hard and earned great grades to a good college, but college seats are limited for them. Yet they don't perpetually whine or go on a rampage. They just work very hard and do the best they can.
“Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged: “The cops shouldn’t have shot him.” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother.” Not, “You’re going to get your butt kicked.” No. “You’re going to embarrass your mother.” “You’re going to embarrass your family.” If you knock that girl up, you’re going to have to run away because it’s going to be too embarrassing for your family...
...Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn’t that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn’t that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? ...
...Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back. We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. It’s standing on the corner. It can’t speak English. It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk: “Why you ain’t where you is go ra?” I don’t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English.
Everybody knows it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with, “Why you ain’t…” You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they’re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they’re not; they’re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you’re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.
Now, look, I’m telling you. It’s not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English being spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry. Oh God, they’re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don’t have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza?...”
Bill Cosby, Address at the NAACP’ on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm