by free2beme 47 Replies latest jw friends
and quit speaking for me.
Advice is not speaking for you, it is about trying to get you to listen to something that could help you. Yet remember the old saying, "You can lead a horse to water, but you can not make them drink." Although, as pointed out recently, "If you push the horses head under water long enough, he will take a gulp."
To add ...
I would rather see Bill Cosby as the voice of helping African Americans, then Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton.
Al Sharpton is one of the reasons "whitey" don't listen!
I've mentioned this book before and will do so again.
Read "Black Rednecks and White Liberals" by Thomas Sowell.
Free2beme Perhaps this article in our newspaper from Saturday will give some new life to this topic. I don't neccessarily agree for I'm not a scientist but I thought it would show what one expert may give as an explanation. This is repeoted in the Advertiser Sat20th Oct.
"BRITAIN - Nobel prize winning American scientist and DNA research pioneer James Watson, 79 ,left ,has set off an international furore with comments to a British newspaper about intelligence levels among blacks.
The renowned Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, where he served as chancellor ,suspended his administrative responsibilities on Thurday following the outcry, the laboratory said in a news release.
Dr Watson has apologised and says he is "mortified" by the reported comments.
Sunday Times Magazine quotes him as saying he "is inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa" because "all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours - whereas all the testing says not really" "
italics and highlighting mine ,so how about that ?
My wife who works for a government department says that the Australian aborigine people they deal with are much worse at paying their phone bills than other population groups ,and yet they recieve much better government benefits than other people simply because they are indigenous.
But this could be because of social minority position rather than intelligence ,but whose gonna believe the above when it's not socially trendy these days not to point to supposed failings of ethnic groups.?
Some one has to say it, and who better then Bill Cosby. Yet many in the African American community are angry he has said these things, even though statics do not lie.
The entire premise that you base this thread on is incredible!
No, I am not an angry black guy, but really, are blacks the only ones that this occurs with? Is this just your personal experience with THOUSANDS upon THOUSANDS of black people?
I was raised in South Los Angeles, a poor neighborhood. My father purchased in 1965 when there was no crime. He said instead of moving, you become active in your community to change it. He was a business owner and my mother was a RN. We lived VERY well. The perception is; Black, South LA, poor, poverty. That was not the case at all. I have heard many say that everyone in South LA is poor, otherwise they would move out (another weak-shallow premise). My father bragged about being the only Black Republican in the neighborhood.
After marriage, in an effort to give back, I keep foster children in the Antelope Valley (in California). We were given 2 white children. The mother was our age, early 20's at the time with 8 children. Her child (girl) was allegedly molested by her crystal-meth using/selling boyfriend. At our group meetings, many care-givers had similar experiences. I did NOT form the opinion that MOST young white girls were a low-life like this pathetic mother I dealt with. Again, MOST care-givers had the same experience, but no stereo-type was formed.
The media controls the mind of many simple people (no offense to anyone), they believe what they are told. (There are WMD in dem dere hills)
Remember, all black people think OJ is innocent? Everyone that I know and associate with thought he was an murderer. I was interviewed serveral times during the trial by the news media (Crenshaw Mall in black LA). They NEVER played anyone that said he was guilty. I personally witnessed this SEVERAL times. They only played people on TV that said he is innocent. 40 million black people in America do NOT think alike. Some even pay their phone bills.
Wow!!
Lastly, I agree with Cosby 100%. He is totally on point in my opinion. I volunteer in the inner-city schools as a mentor now. My company has established scholarships at several HSs. I live in a great 700k house and encourage my wife as a JW (makes the children great speakers).. I apologize if I am offensive to you, that is not my objective. As a black man with a great career, I am not angy at all (as some may assume), but saddend by the stereotyping from the actions of a few.
so Bill Cosby isn't perfect. Are you? Take the wisdom from what he says - it applies to all of us. Hard work and personal responsibility make a big difference in the world. After all, he lived that lesson, and look where he is now. It wasn't all talent, it was hard work. He actually went to school and got an advanced degree after becoming a successful entertainer - he didn't have to do that.
I am leaving out details about me hanging out with one of Bill's children. I know FIRST-HAND what his great thoughts are in practice.
I am done.
Bill doesn't practice everything he preaches.
Personally, I do not think it matters. Many people are hypocrites. William H. is a multi-millionaire. He lives well. Many blacks with the problems he mentioned are poor. They are in a perpetual cycle of medicority and failure. He words of wisdom can provide direction for the blind. It can help them STOP the cycle and improve their lives. Remember the old saying of hypocrites, "Do as I say, not as I do!!!" Especially if it helps you.
Lastly, I agree with Cosby 100%. He is totally on point in my opinion.
I agree too. I also think my point is very valid. In that I gave an example of something that was intended to be a help for low income families, that has in turn become an example of abuse and by a certian part of our population in that area that is noticable. Sorry, I wish I could agree with you and think I was way off, but I would then go to work tomorrow and feel like a hypocrit for not saying what really is happening. These things; programs, assistents, etc. Were not put in place to be abused!!!!!!! Abuse should be treated as illegal and not some god given right to cheat out people. I have not even begun to explain what I know about, what is happening in New Orleans.
In some areas when residential landline telephone service is terminated due to nonpayment, the phone is left active, but only for outgoing calls to 911/emergency services.
The above information is from a woman acquaintance who has had this happen to her. She was getting too many collect calls from a jailbird boyfriend and so soon thereafter neither her nor her housemates could use the phone anymore (except 911). She is currently living with the baby daddy druggie of her third kid (all by different males); she has never worked, she didn't bother to finish high school, and she is totally dependent on handouts. She is perfectly healthy and will probably have several more bastards before her reproductive machinery gives out. Oh, and she's as white as I am.
Why should I or any other taxpayers continue to support her filthy habits and her crotchfruit? Isn't well past time that she should be forced into a little surgery to keep the problem from getting worse?
