Can't Blame White People !!!?

Looks like New Orleans is waking people


up. Bill Cosby is shaking their bed again.


"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 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."





AMEN!

Can't Blame White People !!!?
Clearly one of the few outspoken blacks that actually loves his people without hating mine. Amen a million times.
Reply:A lot of truth in there. Scary!!





Good joke, and thanks for passing it along.
Reply:ha ha dats funni
Reply:thats not funny thats not anything for the record.... I dont like it not offense here...
Reply:I'm confused. This isn't a joke or a riddle or a question. Why is it here?
Reply:I agreed with these statements back in 2004 when Cosby said them at the NAACP event. However, as true as they are, they do not render White America devoid of any responsibility for the initial cause of Black poverty in America. We, as Black people, do have to start holding each other to a higher standard; but that standard does not change the past nor does it erase the impact the past has made on our present.





Honestly, our greatest victory as a a country will truly come when we stop seeing other people (and stop being seen) as Black, White, Brown, Yellow, Red, etc... and respect each other as people. Whether someone is a decent person or an idiot isn't based on the color they are wrapped in. It's based on what the color is wrapped around.





Look around and you will see that each one of those statements fit people of every color. Cosby applied it to Black people because he was trying to fix his own community. Remove the reference to the Brown court case and all the Black/White labels and you could use the same to address any community. Especially in the U.S. His statements were not to say that only Blacks act that way but he was talking to Black people and he is a Black man.





Good topic. It isn't a question nor is it in the correct category, but it's a good topic.





Take care.
Reply:I can not see any humor in this. We all came from the same place, originally.


I started school in New Orleans in 1959. My Daddy was a brown 'Cajun, whose Mother was even more brown! We lived the struggle. I have seen the hatred, and we were not black. We were taken out of school, and shipped elsewhere, because our Mother was so fair, and our Father wasn't. A lot of us Coonies suffered the hate.


By Whites.


Not everyone has the opportunity to overcome poverty.
Reply:That is RACIST, INSULTING and TOTALLY DISGUSTING. You cant judge a person by the color of his skin. Loads od white ppl are criminals, use swear words and do everything said above. So what?? Should we blacklist them too?





Should we insult the whole community or race because of a few individuals.???
Reply:you said it sista ♥
Reply:Amen!! LOL
Reply:So this is a riddle? I have the solution. I didn't even look at your responses. I'm just answering.





You (should) blame the white people (and others) for owning the liquor stores on each corner of your neighborhoods.





You blame the white people for owning slaves, and allowing the dumb ones to reproduce, while the smart ones were beaten incessantly. The difference between a (I'll never use have to type this word again, if I'm lucky) bad *******, and a good *******, was, that the good one wasn't smart. They were treated like dogs, and bred like them. THIS IS THE REASON WHY THE AVERAGE IQ FOR AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN IS LOWER THAN FOR THE AVERAGE WHITE PERSON!!! And, yes, apparently, it's a fact. But I've just given you the reason why.





I (going back to your question) have two piercings, (most of my friends have many more) I have two tattoos, (most of my friends have many more), I wore my hat backwards tonight (with my hair, I look better that way). I know more white people than black, that wear their pants down around their @sses.





I know two doctors, that are married to each other, and have children, and are raising them very well, that are black. A family of four. I live in a mostly white community. I'm white.





The problem has always been the white people. The solution lies with the white people too. Either you quit hating, or you die hating.





Let me explain. The white people are the ones that are responsible for transplanting the black people here as slaves. 80% (this is a guess, not based on fact) of the black people in the U.S. are descended from slaves.





The white people are responsible for breeding black people to be someone who'd be subservient, and compliant about it (only dumb ones were allowed to reproduce).





The white people are (currently) responsible for not wanting to enter certain neighborhoods, and simply allowing black people to subsist on welfare, rather than making them work (like they do to the white people).





The white people are responsible for not wanting to enter certain neighborhoods to restore peace (the police).





The white people are responsible for holding the positions of power, and not allowing any African-Americans to achieve those positions...





There are STILL white people in government (Strom Thurmond) that are openly racist, and proud of it. And allowed to continue that way.





I could go on, but suffice it to say, any statistic you can throw at me, I can explain.





The white people have been the problem since the first white man laid eyes on the first African. It's been the white man's fault all this time, it's up to the white man to rectify the situation. If the white race can't fix their own mistakes, what good are we?





If you could get the leadership of the KKK in one room, with me, and me alone, for as long as it takes to debate the difference in skin color, to conclusion, without weapons, the KKK would disband the day after we got done talking about it. But, they wouldn't agree to the meeting. THEY KNOW THEY"RE WRONG! They don't care. Racism isn't bourne of fear of the unknown, like they try to explain away, it's bourne of hatred, and the rush you get from hating, whether right or wrong.





Black gangs have found a similar outlet, in hating other gangs. They use colors also. If I painted my face black and entered the wrong neighborhood wearing the wrong color bandana, I'd be killed before they noticed I had paint on my face. They also don't take the time to get to know you, they just hate you on sight. They're taking after white people. The problem is that black people get killed by both groups, and nobody's left to breed out the white race (one part of my solution).





Allow me to return to the solution: I said "quit hating or die hating". It sounds extreme. It's not that bad.





1) We teach diversity in our schools. Blacks are encouraged to enroll their children in predominantly white schools. Whites are not told about this. If, every year, children are taught that they were born equal, they will believe it. Racism is taught father to son. If all teachers counter this belief, racism will die with the last generation (like I said, die hating).





Black History month existed when I was in school. Living in a predominantly white community, I learned NOTHING about it. Neither has my daughter, even though there are... finally... blacks in our community.





2) People are encouraged, by the school system, if nothing else, to date interracially (hopefully at the high school/college level). If nothing else can solve the problem, breeding the white race into a minority may just do it.





3) Intellectuals, like myself (not to blow my own horn) offer anyone who claims to be knowledgable about the difference between the races, a debate to prove equality between the races. If they're dumb enough to take the bait, they WILL lose. I started an email debate with one, he just... stopped emailling me. I don't know why. Maybe it was because I convinced him, and he didn't want to stop hating.





4) The whites are charged with the damage done to the country's racial equality issue. It was caused by us, it's up to us to take care of our own. If we're the problem, we'd better be the ones to find the solution. Case closed.





I'm drunk right now, I'll be sober 24 hours from now, when I come back. I certainly hope you email me about this. I think we have something to talk about here. Maybe our own personal experiences differ, but I'd like to hear your take on things. Maybe when I'm more coherent, though.





Added: For the record, I'm glad you posted this here, because if you hadn't, I wouldn't have found it. Thank you for making me think, in my enebriated state. Pay no attention to the white person who feels she's done nothing to deserve the blame. Too many people these days think the future is not their responsibility.
Reply:It's sad to see black people complain that Bill Cosby said this rather than suck it up and admit that he's right. At what point can they start taking responsibility for the way they live their lives and stop blaming everyone else, not just white people, for their situation.
Reply:The "Answerer" may be a little young or a little foolish, but Bill Cosby may be the most un-racist person in this country. Perhaps my reverance of the Cos' may be because I was a grade schooler in the '80s. I got to his see his message to AMERICA, not a specific group. Of course, he portrayed a doctor (which he is in real life- although, not an ob/gyn) to encourage blacks, but also to also portray a real person in most of our lives- perhaps a little funnier, but a man.
Reply:what more can i say other than, he is right!





I'm sick of the black people trying to say it is our fault because of slavery and because of segregation etc.. ok.. I was not alive when this **** was happening! I didn't do it! don't blame me!





however I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU... What about all of the white people who took runaway slaves into their homes, all along the "Underground Railroad"? do they suddenly not count because you want compensation?





Black Americans today have so many more opportunities than they let themselves realize, what is wrong with the masses that think they can go on blaming us forever, what about all of your advantages? The ***** College Fund.. where's my help to go to college, and it's not only white kids that get scholarships, its the people that do their friggin work to get out of highschool and go on to a better career!





no one owes you a f---ing thing!
Reply:can everybody just calm down! goodness! how old are we here, like 13 or 14 years old. why are we discussing this mess. lets get happy!!!! = ) if you people keep worrying and complaining like this, you are going to end up saggyand tired. and btw , i'm 12