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Bill Cosby says poor blacks cant speak english

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M Dogg™:
I can understand Bill Cospey's stands. I think in OUR OWN communities, we need to adress our problems, and we need to have discipline in our communities. I think the problem comes when others point out our problems. I could never talk about language problems in black communities, because that's not my concern, especially when my own community is speaking Spanglish, how can I talk about black language problems. Same with whites. They are quick to talk about how they can't understand blacks, but many whites are poor whites that have very bad grammer. In Minnesota, middle class whites speak worst english than many Chicanos in California. But on the real, that's not my issue. We can talk about our race, like we can talk about our own family. But when someone else talks about our family, a sister, a cousin, we get mad. That's the same with race, we can talk about our own race, but if others do, we get mad. I think that's ok, after all, many communities are racially divided, and we relate our race with the community we grew up in, and we can comment on it, because we grew up with it around us, but others that comment on it, don't have a right, because they don't the whole story behind the problem.

Azn_Bling:
Fuck Bill Cosby >:(

Sikotic™:
Of course if a white guy said that it would be considered racist. If I made a stereotypical comment about Mexicans being lazy or Jews being cheap, it would be considered racist as well.

Doctor Huxtable has a point but I don't blame it on the parents. How come some people who are brought up in the projects and other places of poverty rise up to become productive and english speaking people in society?

sleepn2zero9:

--- Quote from: Error on May 21, 2004, 08:11:45 AM ---Ok...
Bill Cosby is a dumbfuck that motherfucker thinks he's smart because he plays a doctor on tv.

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Last time I checked Cosby does have a doctorate...

i use slang...drop my G'z and R'z at the end of words...but some of the shit people say is just fucking stupid... where you be at?...what tha fuck is that?...you have to go out of your way to say that kind of shit..half the time these kids do know how to properly state what they're sayin...but they don't..
I think that they are smarter than people give them credit for...

Shit..what tha fuck was Cosby on talkin about how blacks kill eachother over pound cakes... I understand that he is trying to express how we kill eachother over nothin..but shit...pound cakes nigga?...coulda said chicken....or ribz...and had a better affect...

alot of the time I think these kids overwhelm they're parents...esspecially in single parent situations.....the parents want to do something but tha child bullies and co-ersez tha parents to let them have they're own way...I'm sure all of these parents want their kids off tha streets...but they can't do much...

cosby needs to stop statin the problems of the black community and start giving solutions to the problems of the black community...I give him credit for trying to help by pointing out our flaws..but it's as if he's up there^ with the rich "whites" looking down on us poor little "Niggaz" shouting commands...this isnt a fucking plantation...

Don Seer:
I just realised two things about this.

ONE > this isn't news, it isnt a revelation.

TWO > its not just limited to black people. in general poor people l get a rough ride, from their raising to their education.

and a final thing..

THREE > some of ya'll are mentioning instances of things i feel may be the real crux of the problem and whats being said could be a misinterpretation of the real problem.

that 'real problem' being 'slang' people talk on ebonics 'gangsta' style or whatever to fit in, if its the culture then its a self perpetuating thing. like dude above me said.. some -can- speak real english, but don't because its not cool. the fact is that people imitate their surroundings to fit in.

I often find my vernacular slipping in every day life because of the influence of the way people write on this board, and because of influence of predominantly black rap music upon me.

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