How Bill Cosby Got iy Wrong

Written by Tamika Johnson


Bill Cosby got it wrong. His many speeches regardingrepparttar plight of poor blacks in this country and their lack of personal responsibility were not only offrepparttar 142066 mark, but completely irresponsible.

Cosby failed to take into account many mitigating factors, in what became his regular rants on poor blacks in this country. For example,repparttar 142067 last ofrepparttar 142068 civil rights laws was passed in 1965, so it's been forty years sincerepparttar 142069 physical signs of government sanctioned racism have been in place. Please explain to me how in forty years we are to undo centuries of terror and government sponsored segregation, emasculation and murder? While I don't believe blamingrepparttar 142070 white man for your problems isrepparttar 142071 answer, preaching to a roomful of upwardly mobile blacks who are probably doing nothing to help those who are less fortunate then they are is pointless and doesn’t do anything to helprepparttar 142072 cause of those you’re complaining about. Poverty is a hard cycle to break; especially if you're black and suffer a history where, inrepparttar 142073 not to distance past, if you dared to assert yourself as an entrepreneurial, educated black person you could find yourself hanging from a tree. This is a country that used to burn blacks alive for fun. That not to long ago raped a man with a broom handle and two years ago sent a young black boy to prison for having sex with a white girl. This is a country where there are several states that have never sent a white man to death row for killing a black man but routinely send black ones to death row for crimes that they may not have committed, look at Illinois, and that is not even a southern state. Now as a young black woman who was raised by a single mother, one who was welfare and who only has a GED, I could so easily be one of those non English speaking, uneducated loud dressing, black folk he was talking about. But I'm not. I'm well educated and I am quite familiar withrepparttar 142074 English language. But guess what, I've been denied jobs and treated horribly because I am black and for no other reason. And if Cosby or anyone else thinks that that doesn't have an effect on those who are not blessed to have a parent who recognizesrepparttar 142075 value of an education and who adequately prepares you forrepparttar 142076 racist country in which we live, then he and everyone else who feels that way are sadly mistaken.

Downing In The Mainstream

Written by The Indy Voice


Look, I knowrepparttar world is better off without Saddam Hussein in power and frankly I'm tired of hearing that as an excuse to allow our President to lie to us. The Downing Memo (READ IT HERE),repparttar 142065 authenticity of which hasn't been disputed byrepparttar 142066 British government, detailsrepparttar 142067 minutes of a very high level governmental meeting in whichrepparttar 142068 British were certain thatrepparttar 142069 Bush administration was setting uprepparttar 142070 intelligence to make a case for war in Iraq and come hell or high water they were assured that we were going to war.

I just want to get a couple of things straight about what went on beforerepparttar 142071 start ofrepparttar 142072 war. First of all, nutcases like myself from all around this nation andrepparttar 142073 world were screaming that Iraq did not possess WMD. We repeatedly askedrepparttar 142074 question of how a country with such debilitating sanctions imposed against it byrepparttar 142075 world community torepparttar 142076 point of causing death to untold numbers of people could create sophisticated weapons programs. We asked whyrepparttar 142077 inspectors onrepparttar 142078 ground were continually unable to find any shred of evidence pointing to Iraq building up its weapons programs. We asked why Hans Blix was so adamant aboutrepparttar 142079 non-existence of WMD in Iraq and why George Bush was so impatient withrepparttar 142080 inspections that were successfully proceeding. We asked how a country that we walked all over in 1991, who wasn't a threat to us when it was at full strength could ever be a threat to us afterrepparttar 142081 sanctions. We questionedrepparttar 142082 reasoning behind attacking a country that had absolutely no connection to 9/11 or American directed terrorism.

So please don't tell me that it is with hindsight that I am now aware of these things. I said it then, I say it now and I said it all along. We all said it. Me and billions of my closest friends.

I say this not to rehashrepparttar 142083 past but to point out that we cannot move forward until we address these major issues. The world won't let us, karma won't let us andrepparttar 142084 insurgents certainly won't let us.

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