Randle2I, thanks for your words, and the video.
Personally, I agreed quite a bit with Bill Cosby's assertion, but having worked in North and West Philly for a summer, I can see why his words were irrelevant to a large portion of that city's black population. There's reasons they don't consider him to be a "real black man," I suppose... I'm not saying it's valid, but they have their reasons. It's hard to make sense of that, as someone--me, not black, and being from an upper middle-class background--looking in from the outside.
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Seriously though it's people's right to be a clod. It's people's right to be an insensitive prick. It's their right to be an asshole and inconsiderate bastard.
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Yes, as I already agreed above... but it's NOT their right to use that as justification for actual discrimination. Period.
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I don't want to have to weed through a bunch of surface bullshit to find out that someone is an asshole. I'd like there to be tangible easily found signs.
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Now, I can agree with you on this note.