Cosby Has Harsh Words for Black Community

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-02 12:05am

"Stop beating up your women because you can't find a job."

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Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-07-02 12:11am

Good on Cosby.

"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."

Favourite part.

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-07-02 12:14am

I'm surprised he hasn't been called an Uncle Tom yet.

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-02 12:19am

I'd like to see a Family Guy version of that speech.

Post by **Gandalf** » 2004-07-02 12:19am

Joe wrote:I'm surprised he hasn't been called an Uncle Tom yet.

I've heard this term a bit, what does Uncle Tom mean?

Galvatron · Post by **Galvatron** » 2004-07-02 12:20am

Gandalf wrote:I've heard this term a bit, what does Uncle Tom mean?

"A Black person who is regarded as being humiliatingly subservient or deferential to white people."

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-07-02 12:23am

from "Uncle Tom's Cabin" an anti-slavery play where the good happy slave Uncle Tom is beaten by his evil master despite serving them to the best of his capacity....

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-07-02 12:28am

It was a book before that, a really boring book that wasn't exceptionally well-written. It would have been forgotten long ago if not for the huge impact it had on American history.

White Haven · Post by **White Haven** » 2004-07-02 12:36am

The thread title missed one word.

'Again'

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-07-02 12:42am

Good. I'm sick of the Black Community taking pride in things that are exactly the opposite of what's needed to succeed and be treated as an equal. Bill Cosby, you're my hero. I want to have your babies...or at least more of your babies. Legitimate ones this time...

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2004-07-02 12:43am

Unfortunately, this is only earning him headlines like: "Cosby: Turning his Back on his People?"

Has PC gotten so out of control that no one can see he's right? He's not a traitor, he's a patriot.

Xenophobe3691 · Post by **Xenophobe3691** » 2004-07-02 12:56am

Lazy Raptor wrote:Unfortunately, this is only earning him headlines like: "Cosby: Turning his Back on his People?"

Has PC gotten so out of control that no one can see he's right? He's not a traitor, he's a patriot.

Yep, it has. Then again, it's always been easier to blame The Man(TM) than to actually get up and work...

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2004-07-02 01:13am

Gandalf wrote:
Joe wrote:I'm surprised he hasn't been called an Uncle Tom yet.
I've heard this term a bit, what does Uncle Tom mean?

It's an insult accusing a black person of being a "house negro" or someone who sucks up to whitey. It actually makes the person issuing the insult look stupid, because as anyone who actually READ Uncle Tom's Cabin knows, Uncle Tom was nobody's stooge. In the book, Uncle Tom is very brave in spite of being a weak and feeble old man, stands up to the slavemaster Simon Legree and is beaten to death rather than betray his fellow slaves. Uncle Tom was no Uncle Tom.

So anyone who calls a person an Uncle Tom is actually praising that person , but too fucking stupid to realize it.

Elfdart · Post by **Elfdart** » 2004-07-02 01:19am

Joe wrote:It was a book before that, a really boring book that wasn't exceptionally well-written. It would have been forgotten long ago if not for the huge impact it had on American history.

The book was badly written. But there was enough good material that a real writer could have made it a deserving classic. It was, however the best-selling book of the 19th Century in the US. Were it not for the death threats, bombings and other attempts to suppress the book or the serialized version in newspapers, it would have been another dull Victorian-era novel and long forgotten. Just as Catcher In The Rye would have been forgotten years ago were it not for assholes trying to ban it.

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-07-02 01:35am

"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."

*stands and claps*

Einhander Sn0m4n · Post by **Einhander Sn0m4n** » 2004-07-02 01:38am

BRAVO MISTER COSBY!

And to think I never was a big fan of his...

Joe · Post by **Joe** » 2004-07-02 01:39am

Elfdart wrote:
Joe wrote:It was a book before that, a really boring book that wasn't exceptionally well-written. It would have been forgotten long ago if not for the huge impact it had on American history.
The book was badly written. But there was enough good material that a real writer could have made it a deserving classic. It was, however the best-selling book of the 19th Century in the US. Were it not for the death threats, bombings and other attempts to suppress the book or the serialized version in newspapers, it would have been another dull Victorian-era novel and long forgotten. Just as Catcher In The Rye would have been forgotten years ago were it not for assholes trying to ban it.

I disagree. Catcher in the Rye was a great book and an important one.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-07-02 01:57am

Joe wrote:It was a book before that, a really boring book that wasn't exceptionally well-written. It would have been forgotten long ago if not for the huge impact it had on American history.

it was one of the worst propaganda pieces ever written

Introduced us to Simon LeGree the bastard that keeps showing up in old westerns dieing women to railroad tracks and sawmill logs...

still if you want some good propaganda read sam clemons

Dennis Toy · Post by **Dennis Toy** » 2004-07-02 02:03am

Cosby is my hero!! Sing it cosby,

Sarevok · Post by **Sarevok** » 2004-07-02 02:04am

Cosby deserves praise for what he said.

Post by **The Yosemite Bear** » 2004-07-02 02:42am

don't know stereotypes are bad...

sketerpot · Post by **sketerpot** » 2004-07-02 11:28am

Kuja wrote:
"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."
*stands and claps*

My favorite part was this bit toward the end:

"Dogs, water hoses that tear the bark off trees, Emmett Till," he said, naming the black youth who was tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. "And you're going to tell me you're going to drop out of school? You're going to tell me you're going to steal from a store?"

Bill Cosby: telling certain people why they ain't going anywhere but where they already is.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-07-02 11:33am

I've ranted many times about the "black victim" mentality in America; it's a crippling, self-fulfillilng prophecy. And it's ultimately the ghost of segregation; why the fuck do blacks in America think they need to have a distinct culture?

When people talk about Asian culture, they mean the actual geographical region of Asia, not a Chinese immigrant living in New Jersey. But when people talk about black culture, they're referring to this ghetto gangsta ebonic moron dipshit culture that's been created by drug dealers and youth gangs in the burned-out inner cities of the continental US. It glorifies ignorance and crime, drips with contempt for education and civilized society, and makes really shitty music.

Col. Crackpot · Post by **Col. Crackpot** » 2004-07-02 11:40am

Darth Wong wrote:and makes really shitty music.

Jay Z wrote:You can catch me in the parkin lot
Hollerin at bitches, parkin lot pimpin'
Everyday we be off the chains
Workin with grain, sittin on them thangs
Tryin to find out where dem dollars at (dollars at)
So when I holla at you, holla back (holla back)
Everyday we be off the chains
Ain't nuttin different, parkin lot pimpin'

Come on now Mike! Surely you jest. This is poetry! Poetry! The Great Bard himself couldn't write like this.

Post by **Darth Wong** » 2004-07-02 01:08pm

You know what really drives me crazy? Stores which play that shit on their sound systems. Loudly, and obtrusively. It used to be that store music was quiet, inobtrusive, wimpy backtround noise. Now you walk into a goddamned clothing store and fucking rap "music" is blaring out of the speaker. I've walked into stores and turned right around again because I couldn't stomach the thought of shopping in that environment.