"We Can't Blame White People"
> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:23:29 EDT
> 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."
> Wed, 7 Sep 2005 15:23:29 EDT
> 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."
