[Rhodes22-list] Cosby brings 'blunt' message to community leaders

[Foy, Warren]

>From an email I received earlier this week:


"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 language 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 ?


Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up ? 

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 

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that bologna,
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. 


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That's all, folks!

elle

We can't change the angle of the wind....but we can adjust our sails.

 1992 Rhodes 22   Recyc '06  "WaterMusic"   (Lady in Red)


 
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