TalkingwithLeon: Bill Says the Darnest Things

I received this in an e-mail the other day, well parts of it. This says a lot about America today. My comments are in red. Bill is an American hero for telling it the way it is.

Bill Cosby Has Done It Again! One of the few people that dares to tell it like it is

They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English.
I can't even talk the way these people talk:
Why you ain't,
Where you is,
What he drive,
Where he stay,
Where he work,
Who you be...

And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk.
And then I heard the father talk.

Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads.

You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. (What inspiration do these youth have to become a doctor? Let's face it, it is easier to be a dealer than it is to become a doctor.)

In fact you will never get any kind of job making a decent living.
People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and
now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. (How easy we forget)
The lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal.

Martin Luther King marching

These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids.
$500 sneakers for what?
And they won't spend $200 for Hooked on Phonics. (Why should they if everything has been handed to them, housing, food, utilities, etc...)

I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in
an orange suit.
Where were you when he was 2?
Where were you when he was 12?
Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't know that he had a
pistol? (This wasn't because of the 2nd Amendment)

And where is the father? Or who is his father?
People putting their clothes on backward:
Isn't that a sign of something gone wrong?

People with their hats on backward, pants down around the crack, isn't that
a sign of something? (Wear those pants like you just don't care, pants on the ground, pants on the ground)

Larry Platt knows better. I like this guy.

Isn't it a sign of something when she has her dress all the way up and got
all type of needles [piercing] 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 thing about Africa .......

I say this all of the time.
It would be like white people saying they are European-American.
That is totally stupid.

I was born here, and so were my parents and grand parents and, very likely
my great grandparents.

I don't have any connection to Africa, no more than white Americans have to
Germany , Scotland , England , Ireland , or the Netherlands . The same
applies to 99 percent of all the black Americans as regards to Africa ... So
stop, already! ! !

With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap
........... And all of them are in jail.
Brown or black versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's
problem.

We have got to take the neighborhood back.
People used to be ashamed. Today a woman has eight children with eight
different 'husbands' -- or men or whatever you call them now.

We have millionaire football players who cannot read. (SEC are you reading this?)
We have million-dollar basketball players who can't write two paragraphs.
We, as black folks have to do a better job. (All Americans need to do better)
Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us. (Not working would be worse)

We have to start holding each other to a higher standard. (All Americans)

We cannot blame the white people any longer. (White people shouldn't be blaming them either because if working people really care about the plight of the poor then you have to prove it and get involved)

Dr.. William Henry 'Bill' Cosby, Jr., Ed..D.

It's NOT about color... It's about behavior!