Bill Cosby has a great way of "distilling" things. Looks like he's done it again!

AMERICA NEEDS A CANDIDATE WITH THIS PLATFORM!!

I HAVE DECIDED TO BECOME A WRITE-IN
CANDIDATE FOR PRESIDENT IN THE YEAR 2012..
HERE IS MY PLATFORM:

1). Any use of the phrase: 'Press 1 for English' is immediately banned. English is the official language; speak it or wait outside of our borders until you can...

2). We will immediately go into a two year
isolationist attitude in order to straighten out
the greedy big business posture in this country..
America will allow NO imports, and we'll do no
exports. We will use the 'Wal-Mart's policy, 'If we ain't got it, you don't need it.' We'll make it here and sell it here!

3). When imports are allowed, there will be a 100% import tax on it coming in here.

4). All retired military personnel will be required to man one of the many observation towers
located on the southern border of the United States (six month tour). They will be under strict orders not to fire on SOUTHBOUND aliens.

5). Social Security will immediately return to its original state. If you didn't put nuttin in, you ain't gettin nuttin out.. Neither the President nor any other politician will be able to touch it.

6). Welfare... Checks will be handed out on Fridays, at the end of the 40 hour school week,
the successful completion of a urinalysis test
for drugs, and passing grades.

7). Professional Athletes -- Steroids? The FIRST time you check positive you're banned from  sports ... For life.

8). Crime -- We will adopt the Turkish method,
I.e., the first time you steal, you lose your
right hand. There is no more 'life sentences'. If convicted of murder, you will be put to death
by the same method you chose for the victim you
killed: gun, knife, strangulation, etc.

9). One export of ours will be allowed: wheat;
because the world needs to eat. However, a bushel
of wheat will be the exact price of a barrel of oil.

10) All foreign aid, using American taxpayer
money, will immediately cease and the saved money will help to pay off the national debt and, ultimately, lower taxes. When disasters occur around the world, we'll ask The American People if they want to donate to a disaster fund, and each citizen can make the decision as to whether, or not, it's a worthy cause.

11) The Pledge of Allegiance will be said every day at school and every day in Congress.

12) The National Anthem will be played at all appropriate ceremonies, sporting events, outings, etc.

My apology is offered if I've stepped on anyone's
toes .... Nevertheless...

GOD
BLESS
AMERICA !

Sincerely, Bill Cosby

I'd vote for him. Then again, I voted for....nah, that'd be tellin'! ;D

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Unfortunately, that wasn't Bill. :'(  I would have written him in.

Jerry

he would have to legalize pot before i would agree to drug testing

Sorry Family.... I posted a untrue quote from Bill Cosby... I didn't realize it at the time that I posted.
But it's good for a laugh any ways..

Peace & Blessings
Luv & Hugs

Ruthie

I absolutely admire Bill Cosby for speaking out on any issue.  He is an extremely intelligent man with concrete advice. 

Even if it wasn't our dear Dr. Huxtable saying those words, those words are worth reading, thinking about, having open discussions about, and making many of them the Law of the Land!

Whoever wrote them - I thank them.

Sandy

Correctly attributed to Bill Cosby...

Bill Cosby's Address at the NAACP's Gala to Commemorate the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education - 17 May 2004

Excerpts from the speech:

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 50% drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. No longer is a person embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.

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. In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye. 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 don’t know that today.

I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was twelve? Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol? And where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to this boy?

50 percent drop out rate, I’m 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. All this child knows is “gimme, gimme, gimme.” These people want to buy the friendship of a child, and the child couldn’t care less. Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever we’ve done, we still fear our parents. And these people are not parenting. They’re buying things for the kid -- $500 sneakers -- for what? They won’t buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics.

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: “The cops shouldn’t have shot him.” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else. And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if you get caught with it you’re going to embarrass your mother." Not, "You’re going to get your butt kicked." No. "You’re going to embarrass your mother." "You’re going to embarrass your family." If you knock that girl up, you’re going to have to run away because it’s 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 didn’t have a baby. The mother had the baby in two weeks. We are not parenting.

Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people. They are showing you what’s wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn’t that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn’t that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn’t it a sign of something when she’s got her dress all the way up to the crack -- and got all kinds of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans; they don’t 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. What’s 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 person’s problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back. We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. It’s standing on the corner. It can’t speak English. It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk. “Why you ain’t where you is go, ra.” I don’t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. 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 it’s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with, “Why you ain’t…” You can’t 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 they’re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they’re not; they’re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you’re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.

Now, look, I’m telling you. It’s not what they’re doing to us. It’s what we’re not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, we’re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There’s no English being spoken, and they’re walking and they’re angry. Oh God, they’re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don’t have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza?

Five or six different children -- same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever. Pretty soon you’re going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who you’re making love to. You don’t who this is. It might be your grandmother. I’m telling you, they’re young enough. Hey, you have a baby when you’re twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you’re twelve, you could have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I’m just predicting.

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 haven’t they been parented to shut up? To go up to girls and try to get a club where “you are nobody....” This is a sickness, ladies and gentlemen, and we are not paying attention to these children. These are children. They don’t know anything. They don’t have anything. They’re 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: “He didn’t do anything. He didn’t do anything.” Yes, he did do it. And you need to have an orange suit on, too.

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 don’t want to learn English. 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 stuff’s not funny. These people are not funny anymore. And that‘s not my brother. And that’s not my sister. They’re faking and they’re dragging me way down because the state, the city, and all these people have to pick up the tab on them because they don’t want to accept that they have to study to get an education.

Basketball players -- multimillionaires can’t write a paragraph. Football players, multimillionaires, can’t read. Yes. Multimillionaires. Well, Brown v. Board of Education, where are we today? It’s there. They paved the way. What did we do with it? The White Man, he’s 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 wouldn’t have picked up the Coca Cola bottle and walked out with it to get shot in the back of the head. He wouldn’t have. Not if he loved his parents. And not if they were parenting! Not if the father would come home. Not if the boy hadn’t dropped the sperm cell inside of the girl and the girl had said, “No, you have to come back here and be the father of this child.” Not ..“I don’t have to.”

Therefore, you have the pile up of these sweet beautiful things born by nature -- raised by no one. Give them presents. You’re raising pimps. That’s 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 that’s why pimp is so famous. They’ve got a drink called the “Pimp-something.” You all wonder what that’s about, don’t you? Well, you’re probably going to let Jesus figure it out for you. Well, I’ve 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. Let’s try to do something. Let’s try to make Jesus smile. Let’s start parenting.
Thank you, thank you.

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That couldn't have been said better!  I was at the local High School recently to deliver some materials that were donated for a reward program for achievement.  While standing in the lobby waiting for the assistant principal I observed one of the hall monitors trying to get a young female (I started to say lady, but she wasn't) to go to class.  She refused saying the teacher didn't like her because she wouldn't do her homework.  She also said she couldn't be suspended again because she had already been suspended twice for skipping classes and they couldn't exceed the limit on suspensions.  I asked why she didn't want to get an education and she said, "I don't need no education to get welfare.  I'm owed it, and I'm gonna get it."  So help me, that is as close to a direct quotation as I can be.  Cosby was right in his speech.  They doom themselves to that lifestyle, and then want to complain because they aren't given enough.  BTW, she couldn't drop out because she was only 14.

This was NOT a racial example I gave.  I didn't identify the race on purpose.  Lack of parenting is not limited to only the black race.  Dr Cosby was just addressing them because it seems to be more predominate there, and he can speak from that standpoint.

Jerry

Bill's comedy of the 60's was focused on childplay experiences and mischevious circumstances,   :)  enjoyably the funniest of the time.  His deserved immense fame since has not abandoned confronting his concerns of the present that are not in the least funny to him. 

The hilarious comedy in the experiences of childhood would be a difficult endeavor today to pull off, his being too aware of an inclining reality to attempt to be funny about it at all.

Previously laughing-to-tears enlightening, now has an opinion.  While maybe not the words contributing to a "gala" affair, still can be nonetheless an insightfully thankful contribution toward the difficulty of comedy expressed from present childhood lives, without actually seeming pessimistic.