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CHICAGO - Bill Cosby (news) went off on another tirade against the black community Thursday, telling a room full of activists that black children are running around not knowing how to read or write and "going nowhere."
He also had harsh words for struggling black men, telling them: "Stop beating up your women because you can't find a job."
Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for their grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them. He shot back Thursday, saying his detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community's "dirty laundry."
"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n------ as they're walking up and down the street," Cosby said during an appearance at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference.
"They think they're hip," the entertainer said. "They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere."
In his remarks in May at a commemoration of the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation decision, Cosby denounced some blacks' grammar and said those who commit crimes and wind up behind bars "are not political prisoners."
"I can't even talk the way these people talk, 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk," Cosby said then. "And then I heard the father talk ... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth."
Cosby elaborated Thursday on his previous comments in a talk interrupted several times by applause. He castigated some blacks, saying that they cannot simply blame whites for problems such as teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates.
"For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around," he said. "Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in."
Cosby lamented that the racial slurs once used by those who lynched blacks are now a favorite expression of black children. And he blamed parents.
"When you put on a record and that record is yelling `n----- this and n----- that' and you've got your little 6-year-old, 7-year-old sitting in the back seat of the car, those children hear that," he said.
He also condemned black men who missed out on opportunities and are now angry about their lives.
"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."
Cosby appeared Thursday with the Rev. Jesse Jackson (news - web sites), founder and president of the education fund, who defended the entertainer's statements.
"Bill is saying let's fight the right fight, let's level the playing field," Jackson said. "Drunk people can't do that. Illiterate people can't do that."
Cosby also said many young people are failing to honor the sacrifices made by those who struggled and died during the civil rights movement.
"Dogs, water hoses that tear the bark off trees, Emmett Till," he said, naming the black youth who was tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. "And you're going to tell me you're going to drop out of school? You're going to tell me you're going to steal from a store?"
Well the Liberal Party of Canada has won their fourth consecutive mandate. THis is the first time any party has achived this since the Liberals achived it in 1908. They will however be forming a minority government.
Polls showed that this was supposed to be a very close election but that was not the case.
This is what the results currently look like
Liberal Party of Canada: 136 seats
Conservative Party of Canada: 91 seats
Bloc Quebecouis: 56 seats
New Democratic Party: 23 Seats
Independent: 1
What I thought was funny was that at one point, Prime Minister Martin was losing his seat, to a sepratist.
Quote:BAGHDAD, Iraq - The U.S.-led coalition transferred sovereignty to an interim Iraqi government two days early Monday in a surprise move that apparently caught insurgents off guard, averting a feared campaign of attacks to sabotage the historic step toward self-rule.
Mr Bush keeps his word this time, To early to call victory though , We have to see how things go in the next few months.Good Improvement! I dont expect terrorism to end untill the U.S leaves and a elected iraq goverment is formed.The new interim Goverment will be a big target since the terrorist view it as a puppet goverment.
I still think going into iraq was not necessary and will not lead to peace with the islamic world and a end to terrorism you cannot go around reshaping the world by force as you see fit unless you can prove with solid evidence your at threat, I would have wanted a peaceful alternative then have 800 american young men killed,thousands of iraqis killed and injured plus all those beheadings and attacks. There was other ways of removing Saddam, Arming Kurds and othe rebels from each corner of iraq to the tie, Then provide air support and bomb and chip off all of Saddams forces like you did in Afghanistan and allow rebel factions to crush him. Putting legions of americans troops on sacred islamic soil makes it look like a total invasion and a cruisade conquest, Doing it the way I suggested above would have reduced american casualties and backlash from the muslims.
I dont want any of you thinking you can do this as many times as you see fit, Your very fortunate that iraq was not even nearly as bloody as Vietnam but it could have been.Nore have we seen the end of it.
The Arabs are not to be under estimated they beat the soviets, They crushed the english and the french. Saladin and the saracens defeated the Cruisaders which was a allied coalition of europeans.Osama Bin ladin caught you by the skin of your teeth and did the worse attack on american mainland soil in history since the civil war and WW2.Osama still lives and he is kicking and ploting with lots of help! We must seek peace and end the violence or we will be like isreal left with no hope or no escape.
As for Nato helping in iraq, Ive heard france and germany have agreed too.
Right now for canada that all depends on the election results, Our Prime Ministry cannot get involved in a conflict the same day he could be voted out of office.
They way things look.
1.Conservatives 100% certain they will send troops into iraq one way or another if elected.
2.liberals 90% certain they would as well , Paul Martin is no lover of Jean Chretien , I doubt Martin would have gotten involved last year , But I am sure he will send some troops for the sake of the iraqi interim goverment.
3.NDP 40% chance, Layton is more liberal then the liberals ,He has some anti american traits, Which is to bad he is a nice guy and alot of his plans for canada sounded good he was never a flip flop, But as much as I dislike Bush I dont want canada to have any rival amosity for the states we have been brothers and freinds for so long it would not be right, I am willing to live and coexist with George Bush if he respects us in return and maybe listen to our concerns.
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