He was never wrong,it's not what you say but how and when you say it.He made fun of how blacks talk but a lot of the characters he played all had moments of talking slang even Dr.Crosby who was an educated Doctor that has jokes at certain moments.
Yep, he was correct in what he said but he was talking about his own creation, metaphorically speaking from a macro level.
I could see why you would have these opinions. But, let me offer this to your points:
True! I was going to bring this up later.
What did your generations do fellas?
Black folks' respectability politics loves to deal with effects rather than the cause. It loves taking every negativity that can be put on Black folks, broadly painting us with them, blaming the victims, declaring them a moral failure and then separating oneself from the Black folks whom it has slandered.
One could say that people have very short memories. This man has always been about the community. Donated millions. Created positive content. Spoke out publicly against racism. Now people want to say that water isn't wet because Cosby said it?
My memory is long. I've ridden with him all my life. He was once one of my greatest heroes growing up. I know all those things he did. I know about those videos from the late 60s and 70s that you posted. I also know his speech from 2004 was unbalanced and problematic, and was spoken from a place of privilege.
He did not tell THE truth. He told SOME truth. He also left out a whole lot more truth, as I pointed out. The dysfunctional things he spoke of didn't and don't exist in a vacuum. He basically spoke from the white right wing playbook making the ills in our poor communities into a purely moral failing- while creating nonexistent hypotheticals. Just like the narrative of the racists he parroted, his speech was just as uninformed and lacking in relevant statistical data and a perspective that takes into account those who created and maintained the conditions under which dysfunction thrives. He could have just actually shut the fuck up and not made the pound cake speech at all.
It's not about "defending bad parenting". Individual poor decisions we make on this board have nothing to do with joblessness rates, lack of funding for good schools and educational materials, rampant discrimination in small business loans. over policing, the system of prison for profit, the prison industrial complex, excessive sentencing and a plethora of other things affecting poor Black communities that I mentioned which you conveniently left out of your response.
let me break this shit down so this question wont ever have to be asked again.
Everything he said in that speech was factually inaccurate or an out and out lie.
the people he spoke about do not exist.
he referenced racial stereotypes about his own people.
the events he spoke about never happened.
all of it was made up, including the stats. we have NEVER had 50% drop out rates.
he spoke about morality in the Black community while his ass was on a 50 year finger banging the pussy tour.
Bill Cosby’s Famous “Pound Cake” Speech, Annotated
A decade ago Cosby gave a speech excoriating poor blacks for not living up to the promise of the civil rights movement. Here’s a look back based on what we know now.www.buzzfeednews.com
and its hilarious that he said we cant blame white folks when white folks illegally jammed him all the way up.
i KNOW he regrets that shit now.
I think it would be a disgrace to his legacy to only focus on his current legal issue.OP, Bill would prolly prefer you to raise awareness on his appeal from prison than debate his respectability politics from 15 years ago. I think he cares more about getting out of jail then the defense of old speeches.
Today, Bill Cosby and wife Camille deem his trial and conviction racially motivated. Do you agree OP?
