I swear some of you guys are hopeless...it must be a tragic life to feel so helpless. I think that many blacks who are like minded need to come together and work together. It is pointless to try to preach to others who don't follow the same train of throught. The excuses will always be plenty but the actions slim...
So I am guessing every speech that is catered to the black community has to have a disclaimer stating how white people are the cause of all black ills with 10% of the speech mentioning accountability in order to appease you guys.
You are missing the point here. This speech wasn't aimed at "the black community"
The overwhelming majority of the black community are not those saggy pants thugs that Cosby lambasted. Most of us are working class normal people who speak English, are educated, and are working our collective asses off.
What bill cosbys rhetoric does is blame the fact that even though I am educated and experienced, I still get paid less, on the poorest least educated subset of our community. It totally misses the point and only serves to further perpetrate the unfair conditions that dictate the socioeconomic conditions in this country
I am personally sick and tired to hear about the white power structure and how it keeps the black man down and how whites secretly fear how powerful blacks are. All this is....is complacency. There are times whem whites need to be called out and there are times when blacks need to be called out for their destructive behavior
You're sick of it cause it permeates your everyday life. Don't point the finger at people who chose to speak out about it. It's not them that need to change.
For my Christian brehs...you look at the story of the Jews in the bible...god spend more time chastising/punishing them than he did those that were mistreating the jews. Just cause you are being victimized doesn't mean that you can't be held accountable for your personal behaviour. In addition, demanding accountability is in no way diminishing the fact that you are being victimized.
True, but not comparable to the Cosby situation. On an individual level, personal reposibilty is key. You play the cards you are dealt to the best of your ability. On the macro level, in explaining why things are the way they are on how to change them you have to look at the "cards" and who's dealing them, otherwise you learn nothing, and work to preserve the status quo
Seems like this generation find more ways than one to say why they cannot achieve when they have opportunities that previous generation could only dream of.
This generation HAS acheived more than previous generations could dream of. They are not mutually exclusive concepts. One can work hard and become educated AND still speak out against injustices. It was the previous generation that dropped the ball. Our grandparents sacrificed life and limb, our parents reaped those benefits and became a bit complacent. It's up to our generation to continue the fight our grandparents started.
Yes I can attest, that many blacks are lazy and are comfortable in the dysfunction/matrix than to venture out of it. Bmthe black collective often times than not do not like to be called out unless it is coated in pounds of arse kissing and ego stroking.
You can't call out the "black collective" with generalization. No other race/group gets that treatment. You never see anyone lambasting "white culture" as a collective. They address the problems where they exist.
However, what I do agree with, is that many of these discussions should be had in private company.
Public/private doesn't matter. What we shouldn't have is powerful black folks reading from the racist justification handbook and making generalizations about our people.
For those waiting for whites to change the systen so that blacks can 'eat', let me tell you this:
This is again where you missed the point. Nobody is just waiting for anything. As has been pointed out in this thread, black people are achieving more now than we ever have in the past. And are actively the most socialy responsible/conscious we have been in decades.
Blacks endured 4 centuries of slavery, colonized by several european powers, went through the civil rights movement, endured neocolonialism and after all this are still suffering the impact of all these ills today. With modern problems such as police brutality/higg incarceration rates/economic destabilization and the list go on. Does that sound like a people who will change a ssystem so that you can 'eat'?
Sounds like more a people adapting their system of oppression with every new generation.
True, but that doesn't mean we should close our mouths and accept it. Our ancestors fought to improve their situation. We should do the same.
I acknowledge the harm(disenfranchisement/oppression) that blacks have endured worldwide but how long do y'all plan on singing the same song? Another century, two...perhaps a millenia? This where having a large population means nothing in the grand scheme of things if there isn't a think tank to redirect our collective.
As long as black people are lynched, black people will speak out about.
Why should we stop?
Blacks have the right to be angry/exasperated/etc...but please let it fuel change not lazy rhetoric of whites taking acountability of what they have done because it's either never going to happen, be insincere, or be sincere but will not inspire any long term changes. Why? Cause they have everything to lose and we have everything to gain. These people can barely stand when blacks have an inch and they have a mile but some of y'all expect them to one day be fair amd split.
activism brings about change. Never stop fighting. They want us to accept the status quo.
The world is for those that take and not those that I have their hands out...!
A lot of you would do better to have no expectation of whites/others and starting taking what you deserve.
Drops mic...
It's much better to expect your enemy to attack, than to expect them to do nothing. Fighting for basic human rights is not looking for "handouts". Saying "hey don't shoot my kids" isn't asking for a favor.
Pick up a book......
You even use the "u mad" cop out strategy like a bytch. If you were going to cop out you should've just posted the 
smiley and kept it moving.
(and i bet you don't even know why
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