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<span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">‘They’re
standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way
these people talk: </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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. You
can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. In fact you
will never get any kind of job making a decent living.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">People marched and were
hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we’ve got these
knuckleheads walking around. The lower economic people are not holding up their
end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for
kids.</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">$500 sneakers for what?
&nbsp;And they won’t spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. &nbsp;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? </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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?
Isn’t it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got all
type of needles [piercing] going through her body? What part of Africa did this
come from? </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">We are not Africans.
Those people are not Africans; they don’t know a thing about Africa. I say this
all of the time. It would be like white people saying they are
European-American. That is totally stupid. I was born here, and so were my
parents and grandparents and, very likely my great grandparents. I don’t have
any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to Germany,
Scotland, England, Ireland, or the Netherlands. The same applies to 99 percent
of all the black Americans as regards to Africa. So stop, already! </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">With names like
Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap. 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. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">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. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">We, as black folks have
to do a better job. Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are
hurting us. We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">We cannot blame the
white people any longer.’ </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt"><br>
</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial">—Dr. William Henry
‘Bill’ Cosby, Jr., Ed. D.<o:p></o:p></span>


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