Bill Cosby, A 'black' Comedian Recently Spoke Frankly

[brahmburgers]

"We Can't Blame White People" by BILL COSBY

"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 [prison] 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 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."

[suegha]

How very interesting. I would have thought that in today's world, white people are falling into the same 'traps' as the black people he alluded to. Isn't it racist to say any one race is like this? I don't want to start anything heavy, in my experience there are those 'of that type' everywhere and of every race.

[PhilHarries]

How very interesting. I would have thought that in today's world, white people are falling into the same 'traps' as the black people he alluded to. Isn't it racist to say any one race is like this? I don't want to start anything heavy, in my experience there are those 'of that type' everywhere and of every race.

Couldn't agree with you more. I went back to UK in '04 after 12 years in LOS, one day I was sat on a bus and a young guy, I think ethnic British, got on and spoke to the driver. I didn't understand a word he said.

A week later in a pub a few guys came in and spoke to the barman in what I mistakenly thought was some gutteral eastern European language. No, they were Brits speaking in the latest street speak, totally unintelligible.

I understand that any language has to develop or die but it seems that verbal and written communication skills are being dumped in favour of texting.

SIR, KEEP YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR AND GET DOWN OFF THAT SOAP BOX REAL SLOW!

OK, I'll go quietly and take my meds officer.

[toptuan]

...white people are falling into the same 'traps' as the black people he alluded to...

Both in North American and Thailand, there is a segement of the youth population that thrives on imitating the black culture that Cosby describes. Frankly. it looks ridiculously pitiful to me when a white or Thai boy tries on the "rap" personna (all those strange hand movements), and looks like he just walked "outta da hood."