By now you've probably heard about what Bill Cosby's up to. On May 17, at a Washington, D.C. event celebrating the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education, Cosby delivered a jaw-dropping tirade on the failure of many lower-class blacks to get their acts together.
"I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange [prison] suit," Cosby said. "Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18, and how come you didn't know that he had a pistol? . In all of this work, we cannot blame white people." He was particularly tough on poor black youth. Or, as he put it, "people with their hats on backwards, pants down around the crack."
Cosby says he was motivated to speak out after talking to Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey here in Washington. Ramsey had just attended a vigil for a 12-year-old girl who was killed when a stray bullet struck her in the head. "People yell about us enforcing the curfew, but the real issue is, why don't you know where your child is," Ramsey told the Washington Post.
Since then Cosby hasn't backed down. He's been defending his remarks on black radio shows and at conferences, pointing to the horrifying trends in black crime and black education, and saying again and again that the government can't do the job of parents.
Now obviously conservatives, white and black, are eating this stuff up. However, it should be noted that Cosby is no political conservative. He is in fact a very liberal Democrat who just happens to recognize the limits of social policy.
And while it's easy to find comfort in what Cosby is saying, conservatives should find even more solace in what he's doing.
Leftists, both white and black, have always warned that poor blacks would starve if government stopped "helping" them - or they'd turn to crime, riot, spontaneously combust, whatever. Personally, I've always found the notion condescending and racist that blacks would turn animal without the domesticating influence of government spoon-feeding.
Racist or not, the reverse has largely proved true. After Bill Clinton signed welfare reform, for example, poor black women didn't starve, they didn't go wilding - they got jobs. By contrast, government "help" coincided with almost unrelenting growth in family break-up and violence among low-income blacks. We can argue about how much government aid helped the black middle class, but that is irrelevant to Cosby's point. For some irreducible number of blacks, government help simply cannot solve the problem.
And neither can new crusades against racism, real or perceived. As Bill Cosby observed: "People marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckle-heads walking around. . The lower-economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for their kids - $ 500 sneakers, for what? And won't spend $ 200 for 'Hooked On Phonics.' "
Conservatives have long argued that the best thing for the black community is, in the late Pat Moynihan's celebrated (though misunderstood) phrase, a policy of "benign neglect." Most people faced with the choice of sinking or swimming will swim. And there's no reason to believe, conservatives argued, that blacks wouldn't swim like anybody else if they had to. Many immigrants come to this country far poorer than the average poor black but still work their way into the middle class, because they bring with them a set of values our society tends to reward. They also usually have an ethnic social network waiting for them, which helps them get on their feet.
Why should blacks be any different? If blacks were cut off without a dime from the federal government, non-racist conservatives argued, blacks would develop, individually and as a community, the habits and institutions necessary for as decent a life as anybody could expect - much as they had, ironically, during segregation. That's not an argument for segregation, of course, but for the sort of self-help blacks relied on before the government started "helping" them. As countless callers to black radio point out, that self-help involved shaming those who were letting the rest of the community down.
Not through lack of trying, we've reached the point of benign neglect. Not because government doesn't want to help but because those most in need of it can't even be bothered to accept that help. The exhaustion of policy options is perhaps best illustrated by the fad for slavery reparations. Tell me: How would that help parents who are willing to spend $500 on sneakers but not $200 on "Hooked on Phonics"? Bill Cosby knows the answer, and he should be congratulated for shaming those who deserve - and need - to be shamed.
Without the still prevelant racism the preceding would make some sense.
But in the real world it doesn't. There was a book titled Black Like Me written by someone who actuaally wanted to see how and if racism worked. Read it.
What the left calls "racism" (tm) is a product, a construct used to effect shakedowns and seize power.
In an era when "Diversity"(tm) means "No Whites" they've got a lot of nerve calling anyone else racists.
Post some references or make some sense. So far you haven't.
The pills that made John Howard Griffin who wrote Black Like Me are still available so feel free to experience the malign neglect for yourself. Take a walk in Beverly Hills or apply for a job or a loan.
I'll wait.
I left out a word.
-The pills that made John Howard Griffin who wrote Black Like Me [black] are still available so feel free to experience the malign neglect for yourself.-
The Man Man Bible
Last Testament
If anyone watches Jerry Springer and say
this is only a black thing, then come from beneath your hole, because the world is watching, truth shall not be hidden in the back closet, this is a worlds problem, only those who hide behind the I am better than you.
This series was taken out of content, the ignorance of a people, who lives in glass houses without windows, I am better than the next,
But this is how the media plays for attention, I am better than you.
Living through a glass house surrounded only by self
Preaching the concepts of social behavior, when the
Scripts are tarnished with ignorance and languages
Of a befoul concept. Man man bible without
A clue what the definition of man and woman
And the role they play.
Division that separate a people, man man dilemma
In who is and what is and I be dam do they
Really have a clue.
My lest testament which probably don’t mean a dam.
To a close mind without air, such a sad situation
When man live through a vacuum,
The tongue the sword,
of an eagle eyes, shall be the
The source of destructions.
Omni presents every place, all the time,
at the same place.
To do are to dye, to dye are to live,
Evaluations of power, Mastery of Self.
Man of integrity the minister of spirit.
Finding of principal, might of power,
meekness, simple laws of loving self.
The hero or the coward saving self.
The soul that dies a thousand time,
when the soul of will would die once.
The man within his own,
abominations of definitions,
Surely he feels his concept ,
is the spoken words of a deliverance,
without the understanding of what a man
Is and should be. Wisdom blacked out within his own definitions.
Nevertheless, he never learned wisdom, are the words holy,
A man who don’t identify with the creator who made him.
The lights remain open, for thee to walk through the door,
The battle with self, oh what a pill of self-destruct.
The hell within inner self, why is it so hard to erase, The laws of cause and effect.
The rights of passage shall find the light.
Within the Universal Light.
One God, One Son, One Man,
The opening of life, oh I have cried the battle,
The son and man. I am one, I must unite,
In the begging there was the word.
In the ending separation of the Son and Man.
Universal conceptions of the alpha,
And the Mega must take its rightful place.
It shall not be easy, and many shall turn there back.
There is no verses that man choose
When the clad brass chains squeeze
The life from the brain, be not
Fool of conning words, be not a follower
Be a leader of self, check out your
Space before you leap, negativity breeds negativity
There shall be no hiding place.
Words of hatred shall continue to separate
Your sacred space, we fight not with
Flesh but principality and morality in
Higher places.
The eyes that are blinded,
the love that has no rising,
the mighty and the power shall be no more,
the light dose not shine upon his head.
Deterring the responsibility of man,
the leader, the nurturers of the land,
the mouth peace of the almighty spoken words.
It’s the power of a man who walks as a man,
Speak as a man, lead as a warrior,
In Gods love, sing not the song of victory,
Sing not the songs honor of honor,
if thy slate is not clean.
Keep your eyes on the sparrow
the beginning of the end has come
and the sparrow has flapped his wings to the sun
don’t look back if you do you will be lost in the wind.
Keep your eyes on the sparrow and the wind shall follow
Don’t look back you will loose your tomorrow
The sounds of the eagle and the roaring of the wind
Grasped to your future, The sun will follow
Hold on there is no light in the dark
What you see before you will be your start
One God, One man, One Son
Beware of the black sparrow who flap
His wings don’t judge it by its image
Check beneath the wings, if you are
Slow he will take your strength, beware
Of the con he will drag you down with
Him he has no conscious are pride
Who is God, the man man bible?
Will send you hell.
Fear not the blindness of man,
Fear not the corporations of faith,
Long distance plantation shall come to an end.
Corrupted and brutal acts of fear.
Shall no longer be the salvation of your tears.
What secrets powers dose fear controls,
Only an illusion, that clings to the mind.
Proud of my submissive tears,
Fear shall no longer live within my space.
Thy mission has now been summoned to end.
Through out this journey I shall move
On accept it declined it, it will be your
Destiny for every man must pay.
There is no hero in the words righteousness
The devil will continue to block and divide
The sanctuary of tomorrow, be not fool
By the devils deception, be a wise man and
Look what’s around you, never accept man
As a friend until he has proven his loyalty
If not your sin will become his.
Never put power in an ignorant mans hands
It will be your future as your pass.
There is no reasoning with the devil
He will continue to destroy, the little
Man without an image of his own.
Divide and conquer the slaves of t he devil.
Freedom shall only be granted from God
When the righteous man stands beside God.
Devils come in all colors and shades
Be ware of the wimpling cries, beware of the helpless
Fool who will sell his soul for the murder of his
Sister or brother for a moment of fame.
The man man bible has just been erased.
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students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities: Their Aspirations & Accomplishments
List of historically black colleges of the United States
There are more than 100 historically black colleges in the United States, located exclusively in the southern
The U.S. South
Location in the U.S.
Population: 99,664,761
Total Area: 2,384,143 km2
Largest City: Houston, Texas 2,009,834
Highest Elevation: Guadalupe Peak 2,667 m
Lowest Elevation: New Orleans -2.5 m
Largest State: Texas 696,241 km2
Smallest State: Delaware 6,452 km2
Census Bureau Divisions
• East South Central
• South Atlantic
• West South Central
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The U.S. Northeast
Location in the U.S.
Population: 53,594,378
Total Area: 464,536 km2
Largest City: New York, New York 8,008,278
Highest Elevation: Mt. Washington 1,916 m
Lowest Elevation: Sea Level 0 m
Largest State: New York 141,205 km2
Smallest State: Rhode Island 2,709 km2
Census Bureau Divisions
• New England
• Mid-Atlantic
..... Click the link for more information. states. Morehouse College Morehouse College is a private, four-year, liberal arts college for African-American men located on a 61-acre campus in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1867, the college has an enrollment of 3,000 students.
Notable alumni include U.S. Congressmen Sanford D. Bishop Jr., Major R. Owens and Earl F. Dillard, New York Mets outfielder and 1969 World Series MVP Donn Clendenon, actor Samuel L. Jackson, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., producer-director Spike Lee, Olympian Edwin Moses and U.S. surgeon general David Satcher.
..... Click the link for more information. and Spelman College Spelman College is a four-year liberal-arts college for women in Atlanta, Georgia. Founded in 1881, the historically black institution began as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. Located on a 32-acre campus, the college is part of the Atlanta University Center academic consortium.
Notable alumni include Marian Wright Edelman, the founder of the Children's Defense Fund and Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Alice Walker.
..... Click the link for more information. have been described as the Harvard College Alternate uses: Harvard (disambiguation)
Harvard University is a full private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the Ivy League. Harvard College, its undergraduate division, was founded on September 8 1636 by a vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, making Harvard the oldest post-secondary school in the United States. Originally called simply the New College, it was renamed on March 13 1639, after its first principal donor, John Harvard. Harvard was first referred to as a "university" rather than a "college" by the new Massachusetts constitution of 1780.
..... Click the link for more information. and the Radcliffe College Radcliffe College is the historical name of a women's educational institution closely associated with Harvard University and was one of the Seven Sisters schools.
The "Harvard Annex" for women's instruction by Harvard faculty was founded in 1879 and chartered as Radcliffe College by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1894. It is named for Lady Ann (Radcliffe) Mowlson, who established the first scholarship at Harvard in 1643. The first president was Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, widow of Harvard professor Louis Agassiz.
..... Click the link for more information. , respectively, of the historically black higher-education institutions in the United States. Howard University Howard University is a historically black college in Washington, D.C.. It was established by a Congressional charter in 1867, and much of its early funding came from the Freedmen's Bureau.
Howard has graduate schools of law, medicine, dentistry, and divinity, in addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment (as of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergraduates.
..... Click the link for more information. and Tuskegee University See also, the Tuskegee Airmen, a corps of African-American military pilots were also trained there during World War II.
Tuskegee University is an American institution of higher learning located in Tuskegee, Alabama. The school opened on July 4, 1881 under the leadership of Booker T. Washington as a school for the training of teachers.
The campus is still centered on the grounds
..... Click the link for more information. are other significant HBCs.
This is a list of historically black colleges of the United States organized by states. Source: Presidential Commission on Historically Black Colleges
Alabama
Alabama A&M University - Alabama State University - Bishop State Community College - Bishop/Carver Campus - Concordia College - Drake Technical College - Lawson State Community College - Gadsden State Community College - Valley Street Campus - Miles College - Oakwood College - Shelton State Community College - Fredd Campus - Stillman College - Talladega College - Trenholm State Tech. College - Tuskegee University
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Andrew Jackson Young, Jr. (born March 12, 1932) is a noted Civil rights activist, was the former mayor of Atlanta, Georgia and the United States's ambassador to the United Nations in the Jimmy Carter administration.
Andrew Young was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. His father was a dentist and his mother a school teacher.
After one year at New Orleans' Dillard University, in 1947 Young went to Howard University in Washington D.C. where he received his Bachelor of Science and pre-med degree in 1951. He had originally planned to follow his father's career of dentistry, but then felt a religious calling. He entered the ministry and received a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Hartford Theological Seminary in Hartford, Connecticut in 1955.
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Novels
• The Bluest Eye (1970)
• Sula (1973)
• Song of Solomon (1977)
• Tar Baby (1981)
• Beloved (1987)
• Jazz (1992)
• Playing in the Dark (1993)
• Paradise (1999)
• Love (2003)
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..... Click the link for more information. , Martin Luther King Jr.
The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968) was a Nobel Laureate Baptist minister and African American civil rights activist. He is regarded as one of the greatest leaders and heroes in America's history, and in the modern history of nonviolence.
Biography
King was born in Atlanta, Georgia to the Rev. Martin Luther King, Sr. and Alberta Williams King. He graduated from more house College with a B.A. degree in 1948 and from Crozer Theological Seminary with a B.D. in 1951. He received his Ph.D. from Boston University in 1955.
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Medgar Evers (July 2, 1925- June 12, 1963) was an African American civil rights activist from Mississippi.
Evers was a native of Decatur, Mississippi, and a graduate of Alcorn State University, located in Lorman, Mississippi. Upon completing his degree, he applied to the then-segregated University of Mississippi Law School, basing his attempt on the 1954 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in the case of Brown v. Board of Education 347 US 483 that segregation was unconstitutional. When his application was rejected on grounds of race, Evers became the focus of an NAACP campaign to desegregate the school.
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Marshall received his law degree from Howard University in 1933, and set up a private practice in Baltimore. The following year, he began working with the Baltimore NAACP. He won his first major civil rights case, Murray v. Pearson, in 1936; his co-counsel on that case was Charles Houston.
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In 1970, Ellison was made a Professor at New York University.
Ralph Ellison died of pancreatic cancer and is buried in Washington Heights.
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Du Bois (pronounced Dew Boys) was born in the village of Great Barrington, Massachusetts to Alfred and Mary Du Bois. After graduating from Fisk University, he became the first African American to receive a Ph.D. from Harvard. He travelled in Europe, and studied in Berlin. Following this, he spent many years studying the lives and situations of African Americans, applying social science to problems of race relations.
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