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- fleecejohnson, on 07/17/2009, -39/+1406It's about time someone other than Bill Cosby was brave enough to point this out.
If you:
1) Have a nickname like "G-Money," "Dastruction" or "Lil Cuz"
2) Dropped out of 10th grade, armed with nothing but a slow-witted 2nd grader's grasp of English
2) Named your baby Armani and then promptly walked out on your "baby momma"
3) Take pictures of yourself and your homies wearing "mad bling" and sitting on a '95 BMW
4) Point to a self-produced rap CD called "Git Dat Money" as not only the crowning achievement of your life, but the closest you ever came to uttering a complete and intelligible sentence...
Then chances are that you're just another in the growing legion of douchebags that has MLK spinning in his grave, and the rest of us crossing to the other side of the street and voting for more prisons. Nice work, Lil Cuz. I didn't create that ugly caricature of you, YOU did.
Go ahead and Digg me down if that offends your sensibilities, but it's the troof. - Buckwyld, on 07/17/2009, -6/+870Hasn't Bill Cosby been trying to say that for years?
EDIT: Well maybe not trying, but actually saying. - motivatedguy, on 07/17/2009, -44/+779....and stop blaming white people.
- OptykUnreal, on 07/17/2009, -10/+701Tough Love = Common Sense. Work hard and succeed.
- onClipEvent, on 07/17/2009, -30/+654and STOP naming your kids after car names...
- Barnstormer, on 07/17/2009, -8/+383He should have added "...and pull your pants up!"
- Crazyredivan, on 07/17/2009, -1/+365And when he did, people freaked out at him.
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,645 ...
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/cosby
“These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake,” Cosby said. “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.’”
Then he attacked African American naming traditions, and the style of dress among young blacks: “Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong … What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans. They don’t know a damned thing about Africa— with names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed, and all that crap, and all of them are in jail.” About then, people began to walk out of the auditorium and cluster in the lobby. There was still cheering, but some guests milled around and wondered what had happened. Some thought old age had gotten the best of Cosby. The mood was one of shock." - e73v3n, on 07/17/2009, -5/+344"Our kids can't all aspire to be the next LeBron or Lil Wayne. I want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers. I want them aspiring to be a Supreme Court justice. I want them aspiring to be president of the United States," he said."
Amen. - yan89, on 07/17/2009, -20/+348You forgot No. 5: Blame white people and society for your failure
- Tiggereth, on 07/17/2009, -5/+298This speech reminds me of the episode of Boondocks where Martin Luther King never died but instead woke up from a coma, how shocked and saddened he was by the state of the people he had fought to get equal rights for.
- mparker21311, on 07/17/2009, -42/+286Ron Paul said it better.
"Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals. Racists believe that all individuals who share superficial physical characteristics are alike: as collectivists, racists think only in terms of groups. By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called "diversity" actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racist.
The true antidote to racism is liberty. Liberty means having a limited, constitutional government devoted to the protection of individual rights rather than group claims. Liberty means free-market capitalism, which rewards individual achievement and competence, not skin color, gender, or ethnicity.
More importantly, in a free society every citizen gains a sense of himself as an individual, rather than developing a group or victim mentality. This leads to a sense of individual responsibility and personal pride, making skin color irrelevant. Rather than looking to government to correct our sins, we should understand that racism will endure until we stop thinking in terms of groups and begin thinking in terms of individual liberty."
-Ron Paul - Harvester1, on 07/17/2009, -12/+239It is a rare event when I agree with the President, but I approve of his message here. He has more influence than any President in my memory has had, so we'll hope that these words will be remembered.
- TylerDuhrdan, on 07/17/2009, -15/+237And stop buying mid 80's Monte Carlos and Crown Vics just to put 24" chrome wheels on them.
- AboveandBeyond, on 07/17/2009, -15/+226imagine if a non-black says that......al sharpton and ACLU would run immediatly!!! to CNN.
- DittoMuch, on 07/17/2009, -2/+210Old age didn't get the best of Cosby it has freed him to say what he wants without reprisal and it his given him the urgency to say it. If there was an American who deserves a moment of silence when he passes it is Bill Cosby. Growing up in suburban Canada the young black men I went to school with were most similar to the young black men Cosby was on showing on television. They were well dressed did their homework participated in class came from responsible homes and they have found success as adults. Bill Cosby didn't fabricate an image of a cultured educated black man he simply let everyone see what we were seeing in the suburbs and in other countries.
The cultured educated hard working dedicated black man is no more rare than the cultured educated hardworking dedicated white man or latino man. We all stand together in hope that one day the glorification of the ghetto mentality of the baby breeders and short cut taking bastards comes to an end.
We need more scientists, we need people studying foreign cultures and languages, we need accountants and lawyers and not just more film studies grads and false celebrity idols. We need the hardworking men regardless of colour to raise their children and educate them by being there and showing that hard work pays off. We aren't just loosing young black men we are loosing them from all cultures and we need it to stop.
We have created a system where by we put crowds around sporting games with cheerleaders jumping in tiny skirts to celebrate each basket or touch down. We encourage children to spend time to learn these activities and we celebrate each meaningless success while at the same time discouraging kids from the sciences and the maths. Obama is right to aye what Cosby said before him, we need more strong men to say the same regardless of the colour of their skin. - Sherman901, on 07/17/2009, -5/+205And stop calling them African Americans.
- TheTaoOfBill, on 07/17/2009, -5/+195http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCdmiZyyGjQ
- cheddaro, on 07/17/2009, -7/+196Will the black community call him a sellout, and an uncle tom now? Like they did to Cosby?
- BoneheadFarker, on 07/17/2009, -4/+160Nah...there are tons of white trash that need to hear the something similar. Sometimes you just need to get out of the trailer park...
- heliumflash, on 07/17/2009, -10/+161Hopefully the black community will improve.
- OuijaCat, on 07/17/2009, -23/+169Who else would they blame? - Their own self-destructive culture? NO WAY!
- alpha88, on 07/17/2009, -5/+150No, if someone deserves to be blamed, then you blame the individual. Stop grouping people by race as if all their intentions are/were the same.
- cnot3, on 07/17/2009, -4/+145Say what you want Mr. President, but my solid investment portfolio of gold plated 22" rims and closet full of air force one's is bound to pay off.
- manlyandy, on 07/17/2009, -12/+144This sounds like a good article to leave passively racists comments on.
- rikwakefield, on 07/17/2009, -3/+131Bill Cosby is awesome. His stand up is second to none IMO.
- RealmDown, on 07/17/2009, -9/+136and while you're at it, stop being pissed off and blaming the current generation for the sins of the past.
- alpha88, on 07/17/2009, -8/+133Or the sound you make when you sneeze...
- Cepster, on 07/17/2009, -3/+124No kidding, most of their blood-line has been in this country just as long as mine, and I've never called myself a "Scotch/German/Swedish American".
- megaton, on 07/17/2009, -11/+127Imagine if Bush had said this.
"My fellow Africans America, I encurge you to stop being rap stars and sports players..." - Uberperson, on 07/17/2009, -3/+118Is this only for black people or does it apply to me to?
- Lisztman, on 07/17/2009, -2/+109I'm not the biggest Obama fan, but amen!
- bearcat8543, on 07/17/2009, -3/+105Barack Obama doesnt care about black pe....
wat - SpinningHead, on 07/17/2009, -16/+113Can he bring the same message to rural whites who act like education is just atheist brainwashing and blame all their problems on blacks and Jews?
- tasine, on 07/17/2009, -14/+111Well said, fleece! I ditto every word. Thanks.
- Yurkshat, on 07/17/2009, -2/+89I think "them" clearly referred to people who wear their pants around their knees, not black people.
- tdmeth, on 07/17/2009, -13/+100This is a message for everyone. Why limit it to one race?
- Rankao, on 07/17/2009, -3/+87I assume it applies to every human being.
- inactive, on 07/17/2009, -3/+84The ones that do are exactly who he is talking to...they have little or no education to understand him and basically no more than a barnacle on the ball sack of society.
- UbIwerks, on 07/17/2009, -0/+78My good friend, a large black dude, is named 'Courtney'. I just about spit out my coffee when it reached #1. :D
- Shwaavay, on 07/17/2009, -3/+79120 years ago? 1889?
Civil War = 1861-1865
Civil Rights movement = 1950's and 60's
The first generation to come up in equality would be about 40 years old right now, and probably has grandchildren.... - southwestnut, on 07/17/2009, -4/+79I saw a bumper sticker in NewYork once that read "You can be African or American, you can't be both" I thought that was true, I do not run around raising hell if someone refers to me as white and not European American.
- volt1234, on 07/17/2009, -27/+101stop blaming the white community for what happened over 120 years ago. anyone black american isnt a slave today, as how youre ancestors were
- BottledViolence, on 07/17/2009, -3/+76God damn, I like pound cake.
- Liability, on 07/17/2009, -2/+75Seriously... it's cool to help people, work hard, and give a *****. These are the things that take real effort and real balls. Anyone can be an ignorant jackass..
- cheddaro, on 07/17/2009, -6/+78You haven't been to a black neighborhood lately I'm guessing...
- Akairenn, on 07/17/2009, -2/+72One time, I was watching Wheel of Fortune, and one of the contestants was a young black lady named 'Vendetta'.
Either someone's baby daddy was horribly surprised, or the chick was seeking funding for her mountain lair and army of henchmen.
I prefer to think it was the latter, and that soon the world will be threatened by a new super villain. - theartfuldodgr, on 07/17/2009, -5/+75There shouldn't be any culture-Americans at all. If you're a citizen here, you're American. My grandparents came from Italy and I can't stand when I hear people here say they are Italians or Italian-American. No your ***** not, your an American. The only way we will better ourselves as a country is if we identify ourselves as one people. We are a collection of people from different places throughout the world, living together in one country, we are all in it together, we are Americans.
- Shwaavay, on 07/17/2009, -4/+73Or alcoholic beverages...
- Reebee52, on 07/17/2009, -10/+78@nedzeve
Why? Why can a black person say these things but a white person can't? Ridiculous. If there's a problem, any person should be allowed to address it, regardless of race. The fact that people think a white person saying these things are 'racist' is a major problem. It's not racist. These are encouraging words from a smart man, why should it matter if that smart man is white or black? - Brad324, on 07/17/2009, -1/+69except the path to become a president has many opportunities, whereas if you don't make the NBA, you might as well find another career.
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