For the second time in six weeks, Cosby attracted wide media attention with public criticism of black youngsters. Cosby was cheered on Thursday when he told a group of black activists in Chicago that young African Americans are the "dirty laundry" that many would prefer he not criticize despite their poor grammar, foul language and rude manners.
"Let me tell you something," Cosby, one of America's most admired men, told the group. "Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other [the N-word] as they're walking up and down the street. They think they're hip. They can't read. They can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere."
Ta-Nehshi Coates in a 2004 debate about Bill Cosby's respectability politics.TA-NEHISI COATES: Well, I think it’s quite clear that, you know, in the African-American community there are plenty of problems and we can look at the statistics and see that. But in terms of Bill Cosby and the remarks he made on both occasions, I think this is really a case of perception first as reality.
So when Bill Cosby called out young African-American women and says that we’re having a four, five, six, I’m sorry, they’re having four, five, six seven babies at a time, I have to look at that and consider that the teen pregnancy rate over the past decade among young black women has declined by 40 percent. When he says that young black kids are not valuing education, I think that disparages the very real fact that the gap in SAT scores between whites and blacks has been cut by half. When he critiques black criminality and sort of gives us this picture of young black boys running wild in the street, I think that stands in contrast with the fact that since 1994, the crime rates across the border plunged, and particularly among young black men.
Not to say we don’t have any real problems. There have been studies in New York that have basically concluded that among African-American men, the employment rate is around 50 percent or so. There have been plenty of studies that have looked at the fact that they have too many households in which there’s only one-parent homes. So I don’t think, you know, it’s so much that we are without fathers, I think it’s the nature and the way in which the dialogue is taking place.
The solutions to those problems don’t lie in attacking the way people dress, they don’t lie in attacking the way people talk, they certainly don’t lie in attacking what people name their kids, as Bill Cosby did. My name is Ta-Nehisi, my son’s name is Samari, my partner’s name is Kinyata; my best friend’s son’s name is Kamati… all these people are God fearing honest people who want the same thing that any other American would want. And when Bill Cosby points us out because of the way we talk, the way we name our kids as opposed to sticking with the reality, have you to wonder how much of this is actually about reality and how much of it is actually about appearance.
The president is Black, but the Illuminati chose to have a conspiracy against Bill Cosby, old and irrelevant entertainer.
Hannibal Burress is a Freemason/Jew/Reptilian.The president is Black, Oprah is worth BILLIONS with owning several networks, Dr. Dre (a KNOWN woman abuser) is a billionaire or damn near, Jay-Z & Beyonce net worth combine is billionaire status and the most POWERFUL couple in America, Puffy, Michael fucckin' Jordan fucckin' OWNS his own NBA team and too many other powerful celebrities.... yet there's mass conspiracy on Bill Cosby that was initiated by a damn minor league BLACK comedian... I guess he's part of that Illuminati too.
Hannibal Burress is a Freemason/Jew/Reptilian.
Franchesa Ramsey, a wench who found her hustle by being one of the first black Amerikkkan women to rock, wash, and groom her natural hair + work out in the 2010's....bytch blew up by hair vids.Who is this chick?
So you want us to convicted a person because you dont like them. .......huh it doesn't work like that buddyI mean SERIOUSLY.... how the fucck any of you should support this sell-out, this elitist Uncle Tom, the PIONEER of respectability politics just because he reaped what he sow? Fucck Bill Cosby.
Debate Continues as Cosby Again Criticizes Black Youths (washingtonpost.com)
This is from the 2004 article about how he view black youth!
calling the black youth "your dirty laundry"... basically call MOST OF YOU ALL that age, yet y'all want to support this Tom!
You still troll weirdoHannibal Burress is a Freemason/Jew/Reptilian.
She should go into politicsShe's gonna eat so good off of this case. On some Johnny Cochran type of attention.
So you want us to convicted a person because you dont like them. .......huh it doesn't work like that buddy
The president is Black, but the Illuminati chose to have a conspiracy against Bill Cosby, old and irrelevant entertainer.
The president is Black, Oprah is worth BILLIONS with owning several networks, Dr. Dre (a KNOWN woman abuser) is a billionaire or damn near, Jay-Z & Beyonce net worth combine is billionaire status and the most POWERFUL couple in America, Puffy, Michael fucckin' Jordan fucckin' OWNS his own NBA team and too many other powerful celebrities.... yet there's mass conspiracy on Bill Cosby that was initiated by a damn minor league BLACK comedian... I guess he's part of that Illuminati too.