Bill Cosby, seems to be right. (page 5)

Save My Soul

It's a social problem in general, not just limited to one particular race.

happens everywhere regardless of race, colour or creed.

These are my sentiments as well. I agree with you 1000% It is socio-economic, not because of race.

When I say this, someone tells me blacks have an attitude problem, their are more blacks in jail and I forgot the rest. Oh yeah, something about a park in Detroit and my butt or was it San Francisco and my butt??? I lost the point (just like a few others)

All of this is connected to the fact that I agree with Bill Cosby. Am I off base on this?

Bill Cosby is right. He is a great man. Never liked MLK though, just my opinion again

Khepri

Hi all, just putting my five cents' worth in. You'd think that ex-JWs as much as anyone would be able to see through the racist stereotypes. Plenty of us once feared and looked down on 'worldly people' because we thought they were 'different' from us. Then we left, and realised that the idea of 'worldly people' is actually just imaginary and there is really just a huge diversity of people some of whom are like us in some ways, others not. It's a very human trait to put people we see as different into a group and label them with all the characteristics we think we DON'T have, but its just too simplistic and destructive to be maintained in this globalising world.

Wuzadummy, Indigenous Australians are not given welfare benefits just because they're indigenous. They get welfare because they are systematically disadvantaged compared to the broader population. They get welfare because their average lifespan is 20 YEARS less than white Australians, because their children go to schools where lack of funding means indigenous languages are not taught, and they have to try and learn in what is for them a foreign language (English), because living conditions are so poor that a huge percentage of children have perforated eardrums and partial deafness as a result, increasing their learning difficulties. Because of poor education they get poor jobs (if any), and many turn to alcohol and drugs to fill in their time. Suicide rates are through the roof. Intelligence has NOTHING to do with it. If you ever went out bush with an Aboriginal person who was familiar with traditional ways, you would find that his or her skills and knowledge of the natural world are PHENOMENAL: they can find their way over thousands of kilometres of apparently blank landscape with no map or compass, they have an encyclopaedic knowledge of native plants and animals and their uses and habits, and they can remember stories which go on for hours. Tragically for them many of these skills are no longer passed on to successive generations, and there is not much use for them anyway in the rapidly encroaching modern world.

Please don't suggest that they only get welfare because they're black. It does them a terrible injustice.

Save My Soul

Go walk at night at any Detroit 'park'. If you survive the stroll I'll give you examples. By large, the black cominity in America has a severe attitude problem. Voting for Obama will not save your butt when getting mugged.

I am not racist, but my beloved dad was. Comments like the above help me to understand why he taught me to have a superiority complex.

Remember, phone bills and Bill Cosby's comments are now connected to Barak the democrat, Detroit Parks and my rectum.

hummmmm

Save My Soul

Please don't suggest that they only get welfare because they're black. It does them a terrible injustice.

GREAT POST, laced with facts and information. They are rare in this thread.

wozadummy

Hi Khepri and thanks for clarifying things about the Oz aborigine , my point was'nt to run them down as I've been out bush and spent time with them in various places ,what I was showing here is a news report that people could use the way that suited their thinking to prove their own agenda which may not neccessarily be right. It's an age old thing where one nationality will say something against another nationality based on supposed science or something else. To illustrate ,here in Oz people have always referred to English migrants as whinging POHMS ,Scots as tightfisted with money etc etc .But what is it based on ( I'm a POHM and happy being here)? Maybe one ethnic people appear to have a trait but it maybe a local phenomena because of locality ,finances etc but that does'nt make them inferior .As the aborigines in Coober Pedy show some are drunks in the gutter and others are well off for they like white people make choices when given a chance. This race argument is stupid and that's why I posted the quote from the newspaper and related what they say at my wifes work ,yet is really true in every case ,how could one prove such things?

Burger Time

I agree wit Savemysoul completely. It's poverty and not race. Go to Montana and look at the meth problem among white teenagers and adults...

Save My Soul

I agree wit Savemysoul completely. It's poverty and not race. Go to Montana and look at the meth problem among white teenagers and adults...

It is incredible how someone can introduce a topic with, "Not that I am racist but.........................black people do not pay their phone bills..........................Bill Cosby was right........................I said low income not black,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,more blacks are in prision and,,,,,,then they are supported by..................u would be anally raped in a detroit park.................. I address every issue they pose, yet they ignore mine. EVERYONE of mine. Am I missing something here? I am forced to questions because this was NOT an intelligent dialogue.

mentalclearness

I also agree with the fact that it's a low income problem and not a race problem. I hear of many people taking advantage of welfare. People of all races. And there is also something to be said for intelligence and nutrition. I live in Peru and people who live outside the city are very malnourished. There is a correlation with low IQ and in general not thriving because of the poor dietary habits.

The media in the states influences greatly the public opinion. That includes biased information against blacks.

Bill Cosby, seems to be right.

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