Bill Cosby was anything but politically correct in his remarks at a Constitution Hall bash in Washington commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. To everyone's astonishment, laughter and applause, Cosby mocked everything from urban fashion to black spending and speaking habits.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal," he said Monday night. "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.' ...
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English," he said. "I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't.' 'Where you is.' ... 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. ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"
When Cosby finally concluded, Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and NAACP legal defense fund head Theodore Shaw came to the podium looking stone-faced. Shaw told the crowd that most people on welfare are not African-American, and many of the problems his organization has addressed in the black community were not self-inflicted.
He is right, speaking the language correctly will go a long way for minorities to better themselves socially and financially. Similarly, naming your children "normal" names rather than made up ethnic-sounding names has been surveyed, and the made-up names have worse job opportunities as resumes with those names get trashed.
Shaw told the crowd that most people on welfare are not African-American, and many of the problems his organization has addressed in the black community were not self-inflicted.
I use to always have this arguement with an ex coworker. She claims that there are more white people on welfare than hispanics, which is absolutely true. But she just cant grasp the concept of "per capita". Then she goes on to ask why white people are not "racially profiled" since there are more whites in jails than minorities, but once again "per capita" is over her head.
If she's that simple, you could probably claim that whites ARE racially profiled -- the "evidence" being that there are more in prison. Sure it isn't even remotely true, but sometimes you just have to accept the lesser satisfaction of beating them on their own playing field.
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