One Black American Spells It Out For the Rest

"We cannot blame the white people any longer." by Dr. William Henry ‘Bill’ Cosby, Jr., Ed.D. ’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. 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.’ === Thomas Jefferson on Race "Nothing is more certainly written in
the book of fate than that these people [blacks are to be free. Nor is
it less certain that the two races, equally free, cannot live in the
same government. Nature, habit, opinion has drawn indelible lines of
distinction between them." –Thomas Jefferson: Autobiography, 1821. ME 1:72  <img hspace=”7″ height=”265″ align=”right” width=”195″ vspace=”7″ src=”http://www.europeanamericansunited.org/images/tj3hd.jpg" alt=”Work Interrupted” />
"I concur entirely in [the leading principles of gradual emancipation,
of establishment on the coast of Africa, and the patronage of our
nation until the emigrants shall be able to protect themselves…
Personally, I am ready and desirous to make any sacrifice which shall
ensure their gradual but complete retirement from the State, and
effectually, at the same time, establish them elsewhere in freedom and
safety." –Thomas Jefferson to Thomas Humphreys, 1817. ME 15:102 
"It will probably be asked, Why not retain and incorporate the blacks
into the State [instead of colonizing them? Deep rooted prejudices
entertained by the whites, ten thousand recollections by the blacks of
the injuries they have sustained, new provocations, the real
distinctions which nature has made, and many other circumstances will
divide us into parties and produce convulsions which will probably
never end but in the extermination of the one or the other race." –Thomas Jefferson: Notes on Virginia Q.XIV, 1782. ME 2:192

2008-09-15