Black History Month: "The Project" DAY 7 (498 hits)
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We salute you Bill Cosby.
Bill Cosby wasn't even in any good movies. That was the first thing that came to mind when I sat down to write this. I mean, there was Ghost Dad, fucking Leonard, Pt. 6 and then what? Some blaxploitation shit in the '70s? Nothing, really. Other than that he mostly made his money from TV shows, which are, you know, TV shows. They might pay well, but come on. I don't see the guy who played Al Bundy going off on poor white people.
We shouldn't be paying any attention to what this old part-time brother has to say at all, but since he's one of the few of us who's paid (not really wealthy, but paid), we get to sit around and listen to him yap about how he doesn't like the way poor black people speak, as if if we taught all these poor bastards the King's English, they would all of a sudden become doctors and lawyers
What kind of fantasy world does Bill Cosby live in? Is he not aware that there are black people who did go to school and can't find jobs? I'm the Internet's Most Well-Spoken Jig (TM) and I work at a White Assholes. What about the fact that the President himself can't even speak proper English?. Didn't seem to do him much harm, now did it?
Clearly the man's brain has grown some kind of thin candy shell. If he was white, they would keep him locked up in some kind of fancy glass chamber until his sad little heart finally gave out. But since he's black, I'm sure they'll keep allowing him to go on TV and launch these little attacks. Somebody should do us all a favor and go put that old piece of shit out of his misery.
In 1992, a star-studded crowd at the Academy of Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame gala awards induction ceremonies chuckled at the one-liners delivered by its principal inductee Bill Cosby. The laughter stopped when Cosby turned serious and accused the mostly white film and TV writers of "massacring" the black image on screen. Cosby's skewered indictment of the TV and film studio executives seemed ironic. For a decade they had enshrined him as America's most treasured TV Dad. They made Cosby, a black man, the quintessential symbol of all that was good and wholesome in family values conscious America.
More than a decade after Cosby knocked the execs for butchering the black image, the even more tragic irony is that he has done much to massacre his own image. At last count, thirteen women in court documents have virtually branded Cosby a serial sexual victimizer. They claim that he drugged and/or sexually assaulted them. In interviews, an angry Cosby screamed foul, and claimed that the charges are nothing but a shakedown of a rich, and famous celebrity. Though no criminal charges have been filed against him, Cosby will be tied up in endless civil litigation for years to come to untangle the he said, she said mess.
Cosby inadvertently made himself a sitting duck for the finger pointing, when in a well meaning, but ill-tempered tirade last May, he lambasted poor black teens and their parents, for being lousy parents, educational slackers, for butchering the English language, and for their alleged thuggish behavior. He made the same charges against them a couple of months later. The indictment was way too broad, too sweeping, and it inched dangerously close to reinforcing the same vile racial stereotypes that Cosby has spent most of his professional career fighting against. They were the type of stereotypes that he had accused the TV and film executives more than a decade earlier of fanning.
Now Cosby was on the bad behavior hot seat. If America's number one Dad can ride high up in the moral saddle and lecture other blacks on their alleged bad behavior, than he should be held to the same lofty standard. The hint of sexual misconduct left him wide open to the accusation that he was a hypocrite and a fraud.
There were warning signs that Cosby might eventually be ripe for a tumble. In 1997 he made a bombshell confession that in the 1970s he had an extra marital affair, and was accused of fathering an illegitimate daughter. There were allegations of shakedowns, under the table hush money payoffs, an extortion trial and conviction of the woman who claimed to be his illicit daughter, and an avalanche of embarrassing kiss and tell tabloid gossip stories on Cosby.
He dodged the bullet on that one. In sex scandal driven America, it's a virtual rite of passage for the celebrity, rich and famous to be embroiled in peep show scandals. The public delights in that kind of titillation. It was hard to ban in Boston a guy that had shelled out millions to minority student scholarship funds, black colleges and had worked tirelessly for civil rights causes over the years. Cosby also continued to rail against the clown, coon, and buck dance image that blacks propagated of themselves in TV sitcoms. He pushed and prodded the film and TV industry to do more to promote more positive black images on screen.
But the glue on Cosby's still largely intact good guy image loosened in January when Andrea Constand was the first in the door to accuse him of drugging and sexually assaulting her. Cosby initially vehemently denied the charge, but swiftly shifted into damage control mode and, as he delicately put it, had a "sexual encounter" with her, but said it was consensual. That still fit the jaded public belief that the rich and famous routinely have their little sexual trysts, and who makes a big deal out of that? Cosby defenders cited the fact that Constand waited years to come forth to make her charge as proof that it was a put up job by unnamed conspirators to character assassinate yet another high profile, outspoken black man and thereby sully all blacks as moral degenerates. There's not a shred of evidence to back that up. Moreover, Cosby did not pillory President Bush, "the white man," or the "white establishment."
That's the bare prerequisite for blacks to rally around a black under fire, shout racism and spin racial conspiracy theories. Cosby had attacked other blacks. The horde of conservative commentators stumbled over themselves to hail Cosby as the ultimate truth-giver and laud him for having the courage to air dirty racial laundry.
America's favorite dad got some things right and some things terribly wrong in his bash of black America. And he may be right that his parade of sexual accusers is out to gouge a star. But if he's wrong, he'll have more than an image problem.
Can we say that he might have touched the kids on "Kids Say the Darndest Things?" I won't venture there. What about his alcoholic rumors? In case you were wondering, this does have a touch of possible rape in it(mistressfit, for you).
Thanks Bill for giving the black community a good name and shitting on your community.
Let's take a look at this picture:
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Submitted by m0ke34 (user info) at 2006-02-10 10:54:09 EST (#)
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I like Bill Cosby. I think it's a bit narrow minded to criticize someone for not being 100% consistent over a 30 year span of being in the public eye. I'm still loving the series.
Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-09 16:40:42 EST (#)
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Ever since his son got killed, he's gone a little funny in the head.
Submitted by shitfuck (user info) at 2006-02-09 11:51:36 EST (#)
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Wicked.
Submitted by MistressFist (user info) at 2006-02-09 11:20:26 EST (#)
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I bet the sexual harassment charges are true.
But he made some good points about the black community. So I like him for that. It's about time someone other than whities make valid points.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-09 11:19:20 EST (#)
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Indo, I actually get here about 5-10 minutes early but I like to be prepared. The only reason I get away with doing so little work is that I'm super efficent in what I do. To answer your question, I usually have my post prepared a day ahead of time.
Submitted by skrapmetal (user info) at 2006-02-09 09:12:14 EST (#)
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"Clearly the man's brain has grown some kind of thin candy shell."
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This is art, right here.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-09 08:30:01 EST (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-09 07:54:24 (#)
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I'm from the U.S. I get to work at 7am EST. But I consistently do approximately 2 hours of real work a day.
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So do you write this first thing in the morining or bring it in?
Submitted by Maddog (user info) at 2006-02-09 08:23:52 EST (#)
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Jelllllllooooooooooooo Pudding, bitches!
Submitted by badassmofo (user info) at 2006-02-09 08:21:47 EST (#)
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I'm a fan of this series.
Here's to early risers, I'm in at 6AM EST and these are always up shortly after I get here.
Submitted by hairycoo (user info) at 2006-02-09 08:15:33 EST (#)
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good style of writing. Im pretty sure Bill Cosby was the richest entertainer in the world at one stage, so unless he spunked it all away he def belongs in the really wealthy category
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-09 07:54:24 EST (#)
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I'm from the U.S. I get to work at 7am EST. But I consistently do approximately 2 hours of real work a day.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-09 07:50:12 EST (#)
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Are you not from the US or do you get to work early, your posts are always on top when I log in.
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-09 07:39:45 EST (#)
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"America's favorite dad got some things right and some things terribly wrong in his bash of black America. And he may be right that his parade of sexual accusers is out to gouge a star. But if he's wrong, he'll have more than an image problem."
-I think everything he said is right on the money, people who go out of their way to dress and talk "ghetto" have no right to complain when they are treated differently if they leave the ghetto.
"Is he not aware that there are black people who did go to school and can't find jobs?"
-Do you mean college, or just high school? I promise you it is much easier to find a job as an educated black man than a white man.