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I LOVE Bill Cosby.........good post meggeo

Next to Fred Sanford................LOL !

Good Monday afternoon from L.A. California .
meggio , if you lived in L.A. you'd go crazy . Yes it's the parents fault . Unfortunately the parents are ignorant and alot of them don't know any better . Usually they have gone through life with only a Jr. High school education maybe less and were brought up by parents that were worse . I believe we should educate the parents . I'm not sure how that should be enforced but that's what I believe .

meggeo , I agree that no one is owed anything and yes everyone should work and educate themselves . I too have worked hard all of my life . I've worked with children and their parents . Yes you would think that everyone has common sense , but unfortunately not everybody does . Some people are idiots . I too get frustrated when I hear how some people mutalate the english language , but now it sounds like you are just pisssed off at life and at a certain group of people . Some people do need guidance not everybody is as SMART as you : )

Hello , I'm not just talking about school education but just learning how to apply common sense .I know of people that barely completed the 6th grade and that have raised wonderful , respectful and well spoken children . Unfortunately there are people out there who do not have the ability to use their common sense . I do not like or condon gang bangers or drug addicts , Please do not misunderstand my point . Oh well , bye for now .. thanks for the chance to express my opinion : )

Everyone wants to change everybody else.
It is hard to teach someone respect when everyone tells them how hopeless there situation is and blames it all on the ones that are better off than they are.
When you teach hate, failure, class envy and tell them they are just victims.
It's very hard to teach anyone that has a negative view of the world and doesn't see the need to learn.
We are the problem for accepting these bad behaviors.
But, we can change ourselves and set a good example.
1. Try cleaning up our own language in public.
2. Say please and thank you and mean it,
(tell someone when they are doing a good job).
3. Show respect for others when driving, (no one is really out to get us).
4. Go out of our way to do something good for someone we don't know.
5. Smile often, it is uplifting and a positive emotion.
6. Gripe at ourselves for making bad decisions, not bad luck, not someone else's fault.
7. Take ownership of our bad behavior and accept the results and the punishment, (we did it and we know we did it).
8. If you believe in a God, speak of your God and pray openly, it teaches respect and that there is a higher power.
9. Don't dwell on the past, look for a better way to improve your future.
Learn to do these things yourself because you are the only one that you can really change.
It says something positive about us, it sets a better example and it does rub off.

Good Tuesday morning ! Thank you 'startmeup ', That is such a beautiful comment . I love it !

TRUTHGUYSinCLE
Feb 4, 2008 | 11:01 PM His new book about how the Black Community HAS got to get out of Victim mode is Great.. he is shunned by the Black activists who think it is whiteys fault and not their own like Michael Dyson (author and Professor), and the New Black Panters. He railed into the people of New Orleans who still had 200 murders last year and have done nothing to pick up themselves while the Vietnam Fisherman have already recovered and rebuilt.

There is no excuse is his message and gets mad, like I do when he sees Martin Luther King Dream in destruction.

Great Post... thanks

I watch a program on PBS called "This Old House". They have been called to New Oleans to help a woman refurbish her house. They have shown hundreds of houses just sitting there as derilick wrecks. The former owners not trying at all to fix them. They seem to be waiting for someone else to come along and fix their houses FOR THEM! Which has happened in a few cases. Habitant For Humanity is in there now but they seem mostly to be building NEW houses in which the owners will have some sweat equity. Politically, New Orleans is primarily Democrat. Maybe these people are waiting for the Democrat "change" to repair their homes.

coffeecup30
Feb 5, 2008 | 8:22 PM I've always admired Bill Cosby on his views. Pretty much says, you're responsible for yourself and the situation you're in, if you don't like it, get off your butt and do something about it instead of looking to place blame elsewhere. There are so many programs out there to help people better themselves, and either they are too lazy or just don't have the courage to take advantage of them.

My comment doesn't exactly have to do with Bill Cosby but it's related. Sort of.

I was in my early twenties, just out of the Navy when I worked at a New York State Hospital. A psychiactric hospital. We had an RN who was about the same age as my father. Which means that she was a young adult during the depression years as my father was. I constantly hear much about how Negros are being held back because of prejudist etc. But this woman gained an education during the depression years and she was one of three charge nurses at the hospital. The highest position for a nurse at our hospital. Her husband was a professor at Syracuse University. Also educated during the depression. As far as I know, neither came from wealthy families. They both gained an education under rather adverse conditions. Which is why everyone was astounded to see both of them convicted in 1965 of selling illecit drugs. The easy money was simply too attracti8ve?

So Sorry,but that is so old....like 20 or 25 years old...long time ago regardless...I have the articule..the beat goes on...did you know Bill really doesn't like us people of none color..he just deals with us////but he never has liked the way young blacks have acted for a long time...he knows they won't get far in this place acting the way they do and the idoits ruin it for the ones that try.