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I'm glad I held off, because that was funnier than anything I would've said.Originally Posted by StriderKyo
or bust.
No, I'm pretty sure he's into jazz.
-Kyo
I'm glad I held off, because that was funnier than anything I would've said.
HA! HA! I AM USING THE INTERNET!!1
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And I Have Cut My Body
He's right. It's Niggas vs Black people without the laughs, really... Same reaction though; the only people who won't praise him for saying it are the people who need to perk up and listen.
So I forced my hands in my pockets and felt with my thumbs and gallantly handed her my very last piece of gum.
Casual Gamer
I first caught wind of his news earlier this morning on C-Span(a rarity for me) where there were live calls being taken about Mr. Cosby said comments. I must have tuned in late on broadcasting, because a few folks seemed to be taken back by Bill's actions, saying it was unfair for him to speak so off hand and vaguely about black culture. One caller claimed that it was a faulty attack because there was no available 'open forum' for the black youths of America to speak on.
While I found a statement like that to be ducking the issue, and not leaving a true to heart opinion on the topic, it did make me question if there really are any venues that a youth of today could speak through and have their voices truly be heard to a public outset. And if there where, would there be any who'd be willing to listing.
I feel the problem that's facing younger culture is that there aren't any authorities willing to take time out with the young folks of this generation. Young culture is quick to be dismissed as a lost cause, or 'youth wasted' because most people don't take the time to set examples and teach youths how to manage responsibility and to succeed. It's always, 'Oh he's/she's just doing that to get attention'. But it really boils down to them not knowing any better. Parents are WAY to easy to lose faith into what thier children can prosper into. Whether it's due to stress as an adult, or a lack of guidance from a previous parently firgure(parents not knowing how to parent), I don't know. But a lot of what problems and ansgt that this generation has to put up with is directly due to poor guidance and care that that person had to go through as a child. They are a lost cause becasue we as a community chose to loss faith in them.
"It takes a village to rasie a child"
This is something my father(who I'm lucky enough to still have with me) told me one evening. In the time where living in, television has changed everything. In a manner of speaking, it really is a vehicle for destruction(and this is said with no religious over tone). Any sort of news or infomation that you want can be steadily streamlined right in front of you face. And all you have to do is sit there... And without the proper supervision, it is possible to pick up some very unhealthy habits. With so many children that are be neglected(not abandoned or thrown out, just neglected), an unsupervised child looks for some sort of a figure to imitate or mimic. And its not always their peers that they look to.
Media has exaggerated common culture, it just to make a porfit, 'Buy this or you won't get laid', 'Wear this to make that honey look your way!' . It has fabicuted America with lies about how to be successful, and morphed and twisted how people set their goals and what they need to achieve in life. Life is not just a quest for mere material gain. But are the parents around to remind their children of this?
No, but in some cases they are. But will they care? Do they worry when their child returns home with bad grades, or spends all there days slouched on the sofa, in front of the tube, sometimes falling asleep to blairing sounds of dirty sex and rims; and then dissapears by night fall, 'running the streets', sometimes not returning until there's a hint of sunlight beginning to break; and then getting reports their child sleeps thourgh more than half there classes and never has brought so much as shred of paper to class? ( be aware that I'm not trying to scare anyone, or go over your head. These are things I have done/witnessed/or experienced in my life)
It is too hard for me to pinpoint, to the smallest facter, what has caused this 'breakdown', or generational gap that youths have with authority (including parents). Poverity could be so bad that parents don't know what to do. It could be drugs(the HARD, scary kind). But as I said earlier, it takes more than one sole individual to be in control of the upbringing of child. It takes parents, schools, even the whole neighbor to be responsible for that childs growth and advanment. And if they go sour or by the way side, EVERYONE is to blame. No pointing fingers.
Hopefully I provide some good for the theard and didn't just rabble about without making a clear statement. I care about our genaration, but I can't be so quick to dismiss them as fools and dumb. It is not all their fault. I'm very privileged to have an entire famliy, rooting me on and telling me to have faith in myself. It's the most important thing form me right now, and it's something everyone can benefit from.
bingo.
I'm saying he did more to hurt the african american population than he did to help it.
Edit: and this goes to you Seven, if you in anyway think I'm trying to be racist, you're wrong. I care about race about as much as I do about saving my money. Anyone that knows me in real life, knows how very little that is.
Electronic cigarette.
Comments like that are why you're my hero.Sort of like what they're doing to themselves?
Besides, who listens to the KKK? Besides other white supremists, of course.
Why would the KKK use a black man's opinion against other black men? That goes against what they're about, really.
You're looking at it from the wrong angle. They wouldn't agree with Cosby, they would never agree with a black man. However, they can now say bullshit like "even blacks think the blacks are fuck ups". That's no good.
These problems could have been addressed in other ways. and they should have.
Electric bug
Opaque- you know that bit where you're wrong? Stop doing that.
Somebody has to tell people that raising kids to be both ignorant and with a strong sense of deserving things just because they exist is a serious recipe for disaster. It turns out people that have no purpose but to generate news stories for Fark and Rotten. Who would you have had say it? Or would you rather just let it go unsaid and ignored, with the vain hope that maybe things will work out for the best in the end somehow?
I'm hoping Cosby sticks to this message and gets people to listen. I'm not tired of stupid black people, I'm tired of stupid people in general.
James
Electronic cigarette.
Yeah, we should pull out our forces from Iraq and have them sweep and clear American cities, taking out anyone who thinks they're in Compton but actually isn't.
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