Cosby Says Poor Blacks Can't Speak English
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Started by C Diddy
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May 2004
I couldnt agree more, it is our responsiblity as educated african americans, to go back and instill some sort of pride and education into the lower income predomitely black and hispanic communities. For all of those who want to pursue education as a career choice, i salute u because its gonna be hard to reverse the miseducation we have going on right now. To those in business, we should look towards independency, and building our own legitimate business in our neihborhoods to stop gentrification. to those in science and healthcare, we should work together to educate our people on how to live and eat healthy. After all, it seems that we are at higher risk to many of the illnesses that plague our community. And to those in law and political science, it is your job to fight for the injustices that are being done to our people. You are our voice that rarely makes it to congress, the court room, and the white house. Its a big task but i still have hope.
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Actually Bill also eluded to this at the Morehouse commencement. I think that people are quoting him out of context. He was talking about priorities when he said that supposed "poor people" were buying $500 shoes. Then he began talking about our advancement as a race when he said that black people can't speak English and that we are immigrants in our own country.
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Bill Cosby is right , sometimes the truth hurts. We as African Americans have a Powerful Economic Base. Somewhere it was stated that all the African American wealth totaled is equaled to the 7th richest country on the planet. With Econimic Stats like that we could be a force for the World to reckon with. But for some reason a great part of our culture seems to celebrate ignorance instead of taking full advantage of our powerful economic position (that all our peoples died for, let's not forget).
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**MissC is 20** wrote:http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38565 It has been said that the media has taken the most shoking excerpts, but the full speech was presented at I think Morehouse's commencement or at some event that he spoke at down there. They said the goal of the speech was to get blacks to remember where they came from and go back to the community and educate. Personally I think its something that needs to be said, poorer communities in general which usually house minorities are lacking in proper education.
