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659, RE: Cosby
Posted by LegacyNS, Thu Jul-08-04 08:35 AM


Well,

It might anger folx but Cosby is on target. Cosby has always supported black folx & continues to do so, (
http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/07/08/cosby.students.ap/index.html )

yet he's frowned up for making statements like this,...

"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."


Yet, Jadakiss can have a rap lyrics like

"Why they stop lettin' niggaz get degreez in jail"

& it receives absolutely no critique? As if most folx we know didn't have the opportunity to go to high school & get good grades for scholarships, etc. Maybe the question that needs to be asked is why weren't these folx pursuing degrees B4 they went to jail? C'mon y'all, we gotta call this nonsense when we hear it.

No one is stupid enough to think that racism, discrimination, etc ceases to exist but we gotta be honest about the squandered opportunities in the lives of a lot of folx that has them trapped in undesirable lifestyles.