WELL SAID 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?
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 ...
I say this all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are European-American. That is totally stupid.
I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa . So stop, already! ! !
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."
Dr. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed.D.
The Jordan Gospel
In an excerpt from his book 'Make It Plain,' a collection of his speeches, Vernon Jordan looks back to explain the here and now. How the men and women obligated to 'disturb the unjust peace' gave us the candidacies of Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and John McCain.
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As one born in 1935 in the deep south who saw my father and oldest brother go off to Europe and Asia to fight in World War II and return home to Georgia unable by law to vote in the white primary, I stand here today—astonished, smashed, unbelieving, incredulous—that America has come to this place and time.
It is truly springtime in America.
But how did we get to this historic moment? Who planted the seeds that have brought forth this new fruit in our democracy?
Lest we forget that this event was brought about in part by the actions of men and women who at particular moments in time followed a deeply felt obligation to disturb the unjust peace and thereby advance the cause of justice.
Let me briefly cite examples—each of which is part of the long chain of events which have produced this singular moment in American political history.
Let us look beyond this year and back to a historic moment which gave women in America the right to vote for the first time in our history.
It began in 1776 when Abigail Adams wrote to her husband, John, attending the Continental Congress in Philadelphia and working on the Declaration of Independence.
She wrote, "Remember the ladies."
It fell on deaf ears because the declaration specifies that "all men are created equal."
In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt's Pro-gressive Party becomes the first national political party to adopt a women's suf-frage plank.
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