Can't Blame White People Now=20
by Bill Cosby=20
The young men and women are standing on the corner and they can't even =
speak English.=20
I can't even talk the way these people talk:=20
"Why you ain't",=20
"Where you is",=20
"What he drive",=20
"Where he stay",=20
"Where he work",=20
"Who you be... "=20
And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.=20
And then I was fortunate enough to come across a father and heard him =
talk.=20
Everybody knows it's important to speak English...=20
except these knuckleheads.=20
Mushmouth is what they speak!?=20
You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.=20
In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.=20
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.?=20
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.=20
These people are not parenting.=20
They are buying things for kids. $500 sneakers for what?=20
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics?=20
I am talking about these people who cry=20
when their son is standing there in an orange suit.=20
Where were you when he was 2?=20
Where were you when he was 12?=20
Where were you when he was 18?=20
And, how come you didn't know that he had a pistol?=20
And where is the father?=20
Or who is his father?=20
People putting their clothes on backward:=20
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?=20
People with their hats on backward,=20
pants down around the crack,=20
isn't that a sign of something?=20
They're walking around with their nasty underwear showing, and=20
holding onto their pants to keep them from falling to the ground!=20
Or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up?=20
Isn't it a sign of something=20
when she has her dress all the way up to her panty line,
and got all types of needle piercings=20
going through her body?=20
What part of Africa did this come from?=20
We are not Africans.=20
Those people are not Africans;=20
they don't know a thing about Africa .=20
With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and =
all of them are in jail.=20
Brown or black versus the Board of Education=20
is no longer the white person's problem=20
We have got to take the neighborhood back.=20
People used to be ashamed.=20
Today a woman has eight children=20
with eight different 'husbands' --=20
or men or whatever you call them now.=20
We have millionaire football players=20
who cannot read.=20
We have million-dollar basketball players=20
who can't write two paragraphs.=20
We as black folks have to do a better job.=20
Someone working at Wal-Mart=20
with seven kids saying...=20
you are hurting us.=20
We have to start holding each other=20
to a higher standard.=20
We cannot blame the white people any longer.=20
It is not for media or anyone of this time=20
anymore to say whether I'm right or wrong.=20
It is time, ladies and gentlemen,=20
to look at the numbers.=20
Fifty percent of our children are dropping out=20
of high school.=20
Sixty percent of the incarcerated males=20
happen to be illiterate. There's a correlation.=20
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.=20
Seventy percent of the teenagers pregnant happen to be African American =
girls.=20
Don't ask me to soften my message.=20
Bill Cosby
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