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.
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But Primus King well understood the denial of rights blacks endured. His determination to be as independent as possible of the South's Jim Crow–rigged system of government and social relations showed itself early in his learning the trade of barbering. Later, in 1939, King's religious faith led him to become an itinerant Sunday preacher, ministering as called by one of the many small black churches that dotted the Black Belt countryside in Georgia and Alabama. It was that faith, he later said, which fortified him for the task he undertook on July 4, 1944.
On that day, Reverend Primus King walked into the Muscogee County Courthouse in Columbus, Georgia, to cast his vote in the state's Democratic Party primary election. Because the racist Democratic Party monopolized political activity in Georgia as it did throughout the South, the primary determined the outcome of the general election. For that very reason, the state Democratic Party barred blacks from voting in the primary. It was that travesty of democracy that King, quietly supported by the local NAACP, intended to change.
"I am a citizen of this city and this state," he declared to the white election officials that day. "I own property. I pay taxes. I can read and write and do arithmetic, and I have not committed a crime of moral turpitude. I have come to vote."
His words got King roughly escorted out of the courthouse by police officers. But King persisted, and with the prearranged help of two local white lawyers, filed a federal suit to outlaw blacks' exclusion from the Democratic primary.
That brought a warning from party officials, who summoned King before them and bluntly told him that "if you don't withdraw the lawsuit, you could end up in the Chattahoochie River."
King, standing alone before the pillars of segregationist power, replied, "Well, if that happens, then at least I'll be thrown in the river for something, as opposed to all the colored people who've been thrown in there for nothing." And he walked out.
In October 1945, the Federal District Court in Macon, Georgia, ruled in King's favor, striking down the Georgia white primary. In March 1946, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans upheld that ruling, and the following month the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear the Georgia Democratic Party's appeal.
The all-white Georgia Democratic primary now officially stood where it belonged—outside the bounds of the Constitution of the United States.
From George Elmore, Primus King, and Lonnie Smith to Barack Obama—lest we forget the journey.
And finally, it is a long way from the prisons of Vietnam, five and a half years of captivity, to the Republican nomination for president of the United States—lest we forget John McCain's journey, whatever our party affiliation or political differences.
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