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If i want to hear someone opine on the black community, i'll listen to black people...the actual people who know something about it and LIVE IN IT. I don't care about the opinions of outsiders, and i have no obligation (or time) to listen to them.
So if that means that i don't have an open mind, so be it.
How has that mentality worked out for the Black community, so far?
If i want to hear someone opine on the black community, i'll listen to black people...the actual people who know something about it and LIVE IN IT. I don't care about the opinions of outsiders, and i have no obligation (or time) to listen to them.
So if that means that i don't have an open mind, so be it.
thats good and all but whats good for the goose is good for the gander, fair enough?
He was widely celebrated, and continued giving similar speeches and reaching out to other individuals to stand up as good examples.
Um... NO.
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After what has come to be known as “the Pound Cake speech”—it has its own Wikipedia entry—Cosby came under attack from various quarters of the black establishment. The playwright August Wilson commented, “A billionaire attacking poor people for being poor. Bill Cosby is a clown. What do you expect?” One of the gala’s hosts, Ted Shaw, the director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, called his comments “a harsh attack on poor black people in particular.” Dubbing Cosby an “Afristocrat in Winter,” the Georgetown University professor Michael Eric Dyson came out with a book, Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?, that took issue with Cosby’s bleak assessment of black progress and belittled his transformation from vanilla humorist to social critic and moral arbiter. “While Cosby took full advantage of the civil rights struggle,” argued Dyson, “he resolutely denied it a seat at his artistic table.”
How has that mentality worked out for the Black community, so far?
I can't tell you how it's working for the black dude in San Francisco, Atlanta, Miami, or Albuquerque....but it works GREAT for me.
I don't discuss black issues with non-blacks. Period. And i never will. Nor will i ever listen to opinions (such as O'Reilly's) about black folks or take their opinions under advisement.
What the next black person does is their business, not mine.
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Originally Posted by saltine
thats good and all but whats good for the goose is good for the gander, fair enough?
How has that mentality worked out for the Black community, so far?
We aren't a monolithic group and its funny to hear people who claim self responsibility try to lump all blacks together in order to feel good about themselves.
The glee and excitement by some whites when discussing black community problems is hilarious.
99% of people who discuss black community problems do so just because it gives them a chance to throw out stats that make them feel good about not being black.
How about asking blacks on CD how they are doing? I bet most are doing well but that wouldn't fit the agenda.
Sure blacks have problems... but so do other groups and it's never a positive to have someone outside of a race tell you how to fix your problems because they aren't trying to dig that deep to fix them.
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