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Originally Posted by alansmithee
Don't get me wrong, I also agree with Cosby. Too many blacks are too self-pitying. But it doesn't somehow eliminate the wrongdoing of whites. And the reason whites would be labelled racist for saying what he said is because they are the cause of many of the problems that people like Cosby are trying to solve. Just this week, in my english class we finished reading Song of Solomon, by Toni Morrison. The teacher (a white person) asked me why I didn't like the book. I told her it was because it largely showed blacks to be superstitious and backwards. She said if someone who wasn't a "person of color" had made the same critique, she would've said he had no right. And she was right, because much of the superstition and backwardness in that book was the cause of whites making ignorance a part of black culture.
And the fact that you actually have to name a black guy with some power proves my point more than I ever had to.
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I find Bill to be one of my favorite ebonics bashers, not just because he is a black man, but because, how fucked up does a someone have to speak for the creator of Mush Mouth to slam them? Ironic, no? The ignorance flows both ways on the race realations though. How many black standup comics you see doing he "Buffy and Biff" white people jokes? I admit even I find it funny mocking the rich snobs, but truth betold, it's the same level of racisim and ignorance, but somehow it's ok because, well, whity has it coming. It's the double standard that is in play that pisses me off. I never hated a person because of there race, I have never owned a slave, I have never comited a hate crime. Yet I'm supposed to feel quilty about thing that happend before most of my family even got over here? Doesn't float with me. Oh yeah, your teacher is alittel over sensitive. I don't care what color you are, you have the right to be able to point out ignorance no matter what color you. I just wish people (black and white) would stop trying to draw lines at what you can say if you are ths color or that color. An asshole is an asshole is an asshole, and I don't care what color they are.