Bill Cosby: Self Hateration or Self Motivation?

Can't Blame White People

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.
Mushmouth is what they speak!
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 throwing that all away.
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?
They're walking around with their nasty underwear showing,
and holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground!
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 to her panty line
and got all types of needle piercings 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 saying...
you are hurting us.
We have to start holding each other to a higher standard.
We cannot blame the white people any longer.

It is not for media or anyone of this time anymore to say whether I'm right or wrong.
It is time, ladies and gentlemen, to look at the numbers.
Fifty percent of our children are dropping out of high school.
Sixty percent of the incarcerated males happen to be illiterate.
There's a correlation.

Tell the media to stop asking me what I think
about people who don't believe what I'm saying
or feel that I'm too harsh
or feel that I'm just running my mouth because I'm old.

Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American girls.

Don't ask me to soften my message.

-Bill Cosby

We Accept Trash, Garbage and Mediocrity: Black people wake the f*&k up!

It amazes me how our black people have degraded themselves. Where it was once considered taboo to have a child out of wedlock, it's now common place; where it was once considered a good thing that a village helped raise a child, it's now frowned upon if anyone else disciplines a child other than the parent (and goodness help us if the parent then doesn't discipline that child). What has happened? Has our standards sunk so low that we will never see above sea level? Walking around, seeing grown ass men, in their 20s, 30s, and goodness sakes, 40s and 50s with their pants sagging below their asses like their getting ready to get fucked in prison? And then you have lil boys, from ages 5 on up doing the same thing. I disagreed with Bill Cosby on a lot of what he was saying but some of it is true. There is no reason why we continue to put emphasis on how expensive our clothing is, and how our vehicle looks and how we spend so much money making that vehicle, even if it's a clunker, look like it's 30k with rims. And why do we buy our children vehicles with rims? When are we going to focus on educating our children and ourselves to make sure we don't end up in situations where we have to struggle?

We are so caught up in this fake thuggery, that if a man isn't a thug, then he isn't a man. WTF kind of bullshit is that? And our women are just getting looser by the minute, my fellow man is getting more vile a minute (since when is it okay to just urinate out in the open instead of finding a damn bathroom?)

Our women are battling each other over some dude who just sees them as something to slide up in; nobody takes responsibility if a child is brought into the world. That's when names are called and it's like, you're calling her a hoe; you're calling him no good and a scrub who still lives with his mother but didn't you know that when you were fucking each other? Since when is it acceptable to call someone your baby's mother or your baby's father and not your husband, your wife, the love of your life, your boyfriend or your girlfriend? I see why we're going to hell in a handbag.