June 26, 2007
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A Quote on the State of a Minority
*note: the following is a quote which I find quite worth reading to the end*
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 stuff 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!
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 , stuff 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
Comments (1)
I work at an inner city school and totaly agree with Bill. Good for him for standing up.