Re: OT

["Roland" <roland@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Everybody knows it's important to speak English

It is certainly important to be understood. Whether or not Mr. Cosby's
observations is germane to the remainder of the thread considering the
offensive header you used is important. In any case, his remarks were
directed towards a specific community and are not universally embraced by
that community as definitive. Perhaps a look at the legacy of someone like
Robert Moses might shed some light on a dimension of the problem that Mr.
Cosby doesn't seem to mention.

"Nelson Muntz" <none@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Crash Gordon wrote:
>
>>Miss Black America Contest
>>
>>There will only be 49 contestants in the Miss Black America Contest this
>>year, because no one wants to wear the banner that says, IDAHO.
>
>
> LOL!!!
>
> On a more serious note:
>
> http://www.snopes.com/politics/soapbox/cosby.asp
>
> Bill Cosby on Niggers:
>
> 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' &mdash; 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.