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.
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.
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).
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.
I've talked about this for so long :lol:, I'm gonna try to keep this as brief as possible.
His comments about lower class blacks not speaking correct English and celebrating ignorance.
While there may be some truth to that, I don't like the fact the he placed the blame solely on lower class blacks. There are quite a few blacks belonging to the upper and middle classes that celebrate that same level of ignorance he speaks of. His comments came across as quite elitist and out of touch.
His comments about the community making every issue of police ****...
He used an example of a young man stealing pound cake. Although that young man should not have stole that pound cake, did he deserve to be shot in the head because of it. I didn't like the fact that he made light of police ****. Regardless of what crime was commited, the individuals in law enforcement should be fair and uphold the law.
Personally, I just found his comments as another example as to why upper/middle and lower class blacks will not be able to come together. If Bill truly wants his message to reach the lower class blacks, step away from the podium at these black-tie galas, and meet the people half way. I don't care for someone who I've been told to admire generalizing an entire group - especially one I'm a part of.
cosby's tellin' the dayum truth... my pastor said so on sunday...."spendin' $2000 on sneakers and won't fund a collgege education?' isn't that the truth sometimes?
cosby's tellin' the dayum truth... my pastor said so on sunday...."spendin' $2000 on sneakers and won't fund a collgege education?' isn't that the truth sometimes?
What poor person actually spends $2000 on shoes? I couldn't even understand where Bill got the first $500 from! Some people keep reaching to make their point.
cosby's tellin' the dayum truth... my pastor said so on sunday...."spendin' $2000 on sneakers and won't fund a collgege education?' isn't that the truth sometimes?
What poor person actually spends $2000 on shoes? I couldn't even understand where Bill got the first $500 from! Some people keep reaching to make their point.
I think it is an exaggeration that most people can comprehend. The point of it is that "poor people", shoot "black people" in general spend way too much money and time worrying about fashion and things that don't matter instead of things that will put more resources in the community.
I saw a 10 year old with a Louis Vuitton (sp) bag...ok it was probably a knock off, but still it begins to young. I wanted to ask her timestables or something
cosby's tellin' the dayum truth... my pastor said so on sunday...."spendin' $2000 on sneakers and won't fund a collgege education?' isn't that the truth sometimes?
What poor person actually spends $2000 on shoes? I couldn't even understand where Bill got the first $500 from! Some people keep reaching to make their point.
I think it is an exaggeration that most people can comprehend. The point of it is that "poor people", shoot "black people" in general spend way too much money and time worrying about fashion and things that don't matter instead of things that will put more resources in the community.
No poor person has $500 to spend on shoes or Hooked On Phonics (as he suggested). My point is that he singles out lower class blacks as if they are the only problem and that's not right. You even made the point to clarify your statement saying black people in general have their priorities mixed up so I'm sure you can at least see my point of view.
cosby's tellin' the dayum truth... my pastor said so on sunday...."spendin' $2000 on sneakers and won't fund a collgege education?' isn't that the truth sometimes?
What poor person actually spends $2000 on shoes? I couldn't even understand where Bill got the first $500 from! Some people keep reaching to make their point.
I think it is an exaggeration that most people can comprehend. The point of it is that "poor people", shoot "black people" in general spend way too much money and time worrying about fashion and things that don't matter instead of things that will put more resources in the community.
No poor person has $500 to spend on shoes or Hooked On Phonics (as he suggested). My point is that he singles out lower class blacks as if they are the only problem and that's not right. You even made the point to clarify your statement saying black people in general have their priorities mixed up so I'm sure you can at least see my point of view.
Yea I definetly see your point I just think that his points are too valid. But u did bring up a point I never really thought about before
one point i gotta bring up, since Im from a very low-financial/low-class background is the one about poor kids buying $200 sneakers and such.....but if they do spend that money on shoes they have no right just because they are poorer and the kid who is richer has more of a right??...my point is should ANY BLACK KID BE SPENDING THAT MUCH ON CLOTHES..and ive seen countless people at howard spend 500 dollars on a damn purse when it could be spent on something more meaningful....i mean we as poor kids see the images of richness and materialism and we see how we are almost ostracized if we dont have the latest fashions, etc..heck i was picked on for years for going to payless cause thats all we could afford at the time lol...but i guess my real point is we have to reverse this materialism within our community STARTING with the richer people, because they are the ones who cause it, they are the ones who spend millions on videos showing girls shaking for money, or making clothing lines with t-shirts that cost 90 bucks telling our people to be accepted they HAVE to buy this, they are the ones whose children pick at others of lower-class making them feel ashamed of their situation and family and thus continuing the cycle of poverty, or the ones who make sitcoms of a sucessful upper class black family and then insult people not of the same background....because a child/his family would not be so quick to want to buy those shoes if blacks would embrace others not because of their material wealth but because of their personality :roll:
