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You know you can't just blame the parents, society has to take some of the blame for this too.
It all stems from rampant selfishness, lack of respect for authority, lack or respect for others, and lack of respect for oneself.
Put those traits in a box, shake for 30 years, and here we are.
I think that it may not be society as a whole, but just the society that these people were raised in. It may not be their parents directly, but it is probably their neighbors, friends, friends parents, etc.
In some ways, however, American culture and society can be blamed to some extent due to the glorification of gang culture. Half of the big time rappers from the 90s and today are former gang members from Los Angeles and everyone knows it. As long as we make this culture "cool", kids will continue to take it to extremes. Turn on your radio or TV and see what kind of crap you hear/see - then look at those myspace pictures again.
All the cool kids want to be gangsters, even in your high class white neighborhoods haha... Some just take it farther than others.
It's nice to see the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson addressing these serious issues instead of blaming Whitey for everything. Yes I know, some of those kids are white, but let's face the facts and realize the demographics crowding the jails. Black America needs more Bill Cosby's and Charles Barkleys.
This is just plain SAD, and of course Scary. You know you can't just blame the parents, society has to take some of the blame for this too.
And just what part of society should we blame? The only part worth any blame is the government that has allowed this to happen. How? Because when the government gives you a free ride, you'll always expect it.
And just what part of society should we blame? The only part worth any blame is the government that has allowed this to happen. How? Because when the government gives you a free ride, you'll always expect it.
I definitely put a lot of blame on Charlotte's court system considering everybody and his brother has committed a violent crime or two... or ten... and still roams the streets.
I think that it may not be society as a whole, but just the society that these people were raised in. It may not be their parents directly, but it is probably their neighbors, friends, friends parents, etc.
In some ways, however, American culture and society can be blamed to some extent due to the glorification of gang culture. Half of the big time rappers from the 90s and today are former gang members from Los Angeles and everyone knows it. As long as we make this culture "cool", kids will continue to take it to extremes. Turn on your radio or TV and see what kind of crap you hear/see - then look at those myspace pictures again.
All the cool kids want to be gangsters, even in your high class white neighborhoods haha... Some just take it farther than others.
My point is - who is promoting this gang crap? It sure isn't the citizens I know who are holding down jobs, paying taxes, and raising families.
It's nice to see the likes of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson addressing these serious issues instead of blaming Whitey for everything. Yes I know, some of those kids are white, but let's face the facts and realize the demographics crowding the jails. Black America needs more Bill Cosby's and Charles Barkleys.
Bill Cosby? The man who had a drug dealer kid killed in a transaction gone bad? The guy who said The Little Rascals was racist?
Bill Cosby? The man who had a drug dealer kid killed in a transaction gone bad? The guy who said The Little Rascals was racist?
Cosby is an anti-white racist.
I'm talking about this Bill Cosby:
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Ladies and gentlemen, I really have to ask you to seriously consider what youâve heard, and now this is the end of the evening so to speak. I heard a prize fight manager say to his fellow who was losing badly, âDavid, listen to me. Itâs not whatâs heâs doing to you. Itâs what youâre not doing. (laughter).
Ladies and gentlemen, these people set, they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have fifty percent drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because theyâre pregnant without a husband. (clapping) No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child (clapping)
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Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are [not*] holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. (clapping) In the old days, you couldnât hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye (laughing). And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents donât know that today.
Iâm talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? (clapping) Where were you when he was twelve? (clapping) Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you donât know he had a pistol? (clapping) And where is his father, and why donât you know where he is? And why doesnât the father show up to talk to this boy?
The church is only open on Sunday. And you canât keep asking Jesus to ask doing things for you (clapping). You canât keep asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you (clapping and laughing). God was there when they won all those cases. 50 in a row. Thatâs where God was because these people were doing something. And God said, âIâm going to find a way.â I wasnât there when God said it⊠Iâm making this up (laughter). But it sounds like what God would do (laughter).
We cannot blame white people. White people (clapping) .. white people donât live over there. They close up the shop early. The Korean ones still donât know us as wellâŠthey stay open 24 hours (laughter).
Iâm looking and I see a man named Kenneth Clark. He and his wife MamieâŠKennethâs still alive. I have to apologize to him for these people because Kenneth said it straight. He said you have to strengthen yourselvesâŠand weâve got to have that black doll. And everybody said it. Julian Bond said it. Dick Gregory said it. All these lawyers said it. And you wouldnât know that anybody had done a damned thing.
50 percent drop out rate, Iâm telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men. Under what excuse, I want somebody to love me, and as soon as you have it, you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing about love or respect of any one of the three of them (clapping). All this child knows is âgimme, gimme, gimme.â These people want to buy the friendship of a childâŠ.and the child couldnât care less. Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever weâve done, we still fear our parents (clapping and laughter). And these people are not parenting. Theyâre buying things for the kid. $500 sneakers, for what? They wonât buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics. (clapping)
A\Kenneth Clark, somewhere in his home in upstate New YorkâŠjust looking ahead. Thank God, he doesnât know whatâs going on, thank God. But these people, the ones up here in the balcony fought so hard. Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged, âThe cops shouldnât have shot himâ What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? (laughter and clapping). I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else (laughter) And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if get caught with it youâre going to embarrass your mother. Not youâre going to get your butt kicked. No. Youâre going to embarrass your mother. Youâre going to embarrass your family.
If knock that girl up, youâre going to have to run away because itâs going to be too embarrassing for your family. In the old days, a girl getting pregnant had to go down South, and then her mother would go down to get her. But the mother had the baby. I said the mother had the baby. The girl didnât have a baby. The mother had the baby in two weeks. (laughter) We are not parenting. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people, they are showing you whatâs wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. âisnât that a sign of something going on wrong? (laughter)
Are you not paying attention, people with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isnât that a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up (laughter and clapping ). Isnât it a sign of something when sheâs got her dress all the way up to the crackâŠand got all kinds of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? (laughter). We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans, they donât know a damned thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail. (When we give these kinds names to our children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning of those names. Whatâs the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up).
Brown Versus the Board of Education is no longer the white personâs problem. Weâve got to take the neighborhood back (clapping). Weâve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. Itâs right around the corner. (laughter) Itâs standing on the corner. It canât speak English. It doesnât want to speak English. I canât even talk the way these people talk. âWhy you ainât where you is go, ra,â I donât know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk (laughter). Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows itâs important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You canât land a plane with âwhy you ainâtâŠâ You canât be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that theyâre moving ahead on this. Well, they know theyâre not, theyâre just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when youâre just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.
Now look, Iâm telling you. Itâs not what theyâre doing to us. Itâs what weâre not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, weâre raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. Thereâs no English being spoken, and theyâre walking and theyâre angry. Oh God, theyâre angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they donât have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza? And then run to the poor cousinâs house. They sit there and the cousin says âwhat are you doing here?â âI just killed somebody, man.â âWhat?â âI just killed somebody, Iâve got to stay here.â âNo, you donât.â âWell, give me some money, Iâll goâŠâ âWhere are you going?â âNorth Carolina.â Everybody wanted to go to North Carolina. But the police know where youâre going because your cousin has a record.
Five or six different children, same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever, pretty soon youâre going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who youâre making love to. You donât who this is. It might be your grandmother. (laughter) Iâm telling you, theyâre young enough. Hey, you have a baby when youâre twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time youâre twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. Iâm just predicting.
Iâm saying Brown Vs. Board of Education. Weâve got to hit the streets, ladies and gentlemen. Iâm winding up, now , no more applause. Iâm saying, look at the Black Muslims. There are Black Muslims standing on the street corners and they say so forth and so on, and weârere laughing at them because they have bean pies and all that, but you donât read âBlack Muslim gunned down while chastising drug dealer.â You donât read that. They donât shoot down Black Muslims. You understand me. Muslims tell you to get out of the neighborhood. When you want to clear your neighborhood out, first thing you do is go get the Black Muslims, bean pies and all (laughter). And your neighborhood is then clear. The police canât do it .
Iâm telling you Christians, whatâs wrong with you? Why canât you hit the streets? Why canât you clean it out yourselves? Itâs our time now, ladies and gentlemen. It is our time (clapping). And Iâve got good news for you. Itâs not about money. Itâs about you doing something ordinarily that we doâget in somebody elseâs business. Itâs time for you to not accept the language that these people are speaking, which will take them nowhere. What the hell good is Brown V. Board of Education if nobody wants it?
What is it with young girls getting after some girl who wants to still remain a virgin. Who are these sick black people and where did they come from and why havenât they been parented to shut up? To go up to girls and try to get a club where âyou are nobody..,â this is a sickness ladies and gentlemen and we are not paying attention to these children. These are children. They donât know anything. They donât have anything. Theyâre homeless people. All they know how to do is beg. And you give it to them, trying to win their friendship. And what are they good for? And then they stand there in an orange suit and you drop to your knees, â(crying sound) He didnât do anything, he didnât do anything.â Yes, he did do it. And you need to have an orange suit on too (laughter, clapping).
So, ladies and gentlemen, I want to thank you for the award (big laughter) and giving me an opportunity to speak because, I mean, this is the future, and all of these people who lined up and done..theyâve got to be wondering what the hell happened. Brown V. Board of Education, these people who marched and were hit in the face with rocks and punched in the face to get an education and we got these knuckleheads walking around who donât want to learn English (clapping) I know that you all know it. I just want to get you as angry that you ought to be. When you walk around the neighborhood and you see this stuff, that stuffâs not funny. These people are not funny anymore. And that âs not brother. And thatâs not my sister. Theyâre faking and theyâre dragging me way down because the state, the city and all these people have to pick up the tab on them because they donât want to accept that they have to study to get an education.
We have to begin to build in the neighborhood, have restaurants, have cleaners, have pharmacies, have real estate, have medical buildings instead of trying to rob them all. And so, ladies and gentlemen, please, Dorothy Height, where ever sheâs sitting, she didnât do all that stuff so that she could hear somebody say âI canât stand algebra, I canât standâŠand âwhat you is.â Itâs horrible.
Basketball players, multimillionaires canât write a paragraph. Football players, multimillionaires, canât read. Yes. Multimillionaires. Well, Brown V Board of Education, where are we today? Itâs there. They paved the way. What did we do with it. The white man, heâs laughing, got to be laughing. 50 percent drop out, rest of them in prison.
You got to tell me that if there was parenting, help me, if there was parenting, he wouldnât have picked up the Coca Cola bottle and walked out with it to get shot in the back of the head. He wouldnât have. Not if he loved his parents. And not if they were parenting! Not if the father would come home. Not if the boy hadnât dropped the sperm cell inside of the girl and the girl had said, âNo, you have to come back here and be the father of this child.â Not ..âI donât have to.â
Therefore, you have the pile up of these sweet beautiful things born by nature raised by no one. Give them presents. Youâre raising pimps. Thatâs what a pimp is. A pimp will act nasty to you so you have to go out and get them something. And then you bring it back and maybe he or she hugs you. And thatâs why pimp is so famous. Theyâve got a drink called the âPimp-something.â You all wonder what thatâs about, donât you? Well, youâre probably going to let Jesus figure it out for you (laughter). Well, Iâve got something to tell you about Jesus. When you go to the church, look at the stained glass things of Jesus. Look at them. Is Jesus smiling? Not in one picture. So, tell your friends. Letâs try to do something. Letâs try to make Jesus smile. Letâs start parenting. Thank you, thank you (clapping, cheers)
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