Bill Cosby continues to say what needs to be said!

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Bill Cosby has more harsh words for black community

CHICAGO, Illinois (AP) -- Bill Cosby went off on another tirade against the black community Thursday, telling a room full of activists that black children are running around not knowing how to read or write and "going nowhere."

He also had harsh words for struggling black men, telling them: "Stop beating up your women because you can't find a job."

Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for their grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them.

He shot back Thursday, saying his detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community's "dirty laundry."

"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n------ as they're walking up and down the street," Cosby said during an appearance at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference.

"They think they're hip," the entertainer said. "They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere."

In his remarks in May at a commemoration of the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Cosby denounced some blacks' grammar and said those who commit crimes and wind up behind bars "are not political prisoners."

"I can't even talk the way these people talk, 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk," Cosby said then. "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."

Cosby elaborated Thursday on his previous comments in a talk interrupted several times by applause. He castigated some blacks, saying that they cannot simply blame whites for problems such as teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates.

"For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around," he said. "Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in."

Cosby lamented that the racial slurs once used by those who lynched blacks are now a favorite expression of black children. And he blamed parents.

"When you put on a record and that record is yelling 'n----- this and n----- that' and you've got your little 6-year-old, 7-year-old sitting in the back seat of the car, those children hear that," he said.

He also condemned black men who missed out on opportunities and are now angry about their lives.

"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."

Cosby appeared Thursday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder and president of the education fund, who defended the entertainer's statements.

"Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said. "Drunk people can't do that. Illiterate people can't do that."

Cosby also said many young people are failing to honor the sacrifices made by those who struggled and died during the civil rights movement.

"Dogs, water hoses that tear the bark off trees, Emmett Till," he said, naming the black youth who was tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. "And you're going to tell me you're going to drop out of school? You're going to tell me you're going to steal from a store?"

Cosby also said he wasn't concerned that some whites took his comments and turned them "against our people."

"Let them talk," he said.

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/07/01/cosby.comments.ap/index.html

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Is Bill Cosby justified in his recent criticism of some segments of the black community?

Yes, justified 98% 36797 votes

No, not justified 2% 842 votes

Total: 37639 votes

the current cnn poll.

[TimmyB]

I do not know if Bill Cosby ever grew up in Harlem, or the south side of Chicago, or off of Eight Mile in Detroit, or in East Los Angeles, or anywhere in Baltimore, or the cardboard city looking on to the White House in Washington D.C..

There are too many places in the United States of America to mention where African Americans are oppressed and do not have even close to the same opportunites to that of what white America has.

While I was going out with an American in Richmond, Virginia off and on for over three years I was amazed how much it mattered that she lived in a certain area so her child could go to the better school district. I told her over and over again that in Canada if you lived in a certain region like the one I grew up in Halton, that all the schools were relatively the same and these were not often concerns of Canadian citizens.

Now here was a woman making over sixty thousand American annually and she was worried about being in the wrong area for her child. What kind of education in America do children get if their parents only make forty thousand or heaven forbid less than twenty thousand each year. Not a very good one let me tell you.

Bill Cosby should watch Michael Moore's new film "Fahrenheit 9/11" or even better his first film "Roger & Me" and see what happens in the United States of America if you don't make any money.

I'll tell you what happens to the majority of poor black children in America, they either end up in prison or the army.

As for the CNN poll, I'll start to listen to CNN when they actually start to show it's viewers real news intead of acting like a Entertainment Tonight or a Access Hollywood news show.

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i thought the cnn poll was hillarious....

i bet it was 99.9% white people voting...