October 23, 2007 | Tags: oprah, bullshit, Cosby

So let me go ahead and finish this off before I get into anything else. There’s a lot of real shit being said on both sides of the coin, if you missed part 1 of the blog, go back here and check the blog and the comment section, cuz there’s some people who believe a lot (not all) of what Cosby is saying and they got real shit to say too. Now let’s go back to the show…..

“Our kid got shot by a stray bullet, we did everything right…and he got shot. If we, blacks and Hispanics, don’t step up, we’ll all be afraid to go outside.”
Mother of kid shot to death on the back of a Chicago public bus on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”

This goes back to something I said before. The people who need to be talked to…don’t give a fuck about an Oprah Winfrey or a Bill Cosby. The parents of the kid who shot these people’s child weren’t watching Oprah. That’s what really makes me upset about the whole situation, he goes and does these speeches at college’s and on Oprah, but the thing is, the people he’s speaking to, look down on us (I feel I’m very much a part of the communities he’s talking shit about.) right along with him. So you got all these muthafuckas with money like “Oh my god, it’s so horrible, they DO need to get there stuff together, they are messing up,” What the hell is this gonna help? Then you got these right wing dick faces going “Oh, see, even Bill Cosby agrees, they can’t say he’s racists. Now you have an established black man, who came from their community saying the same thing I’ve been saying for years”. They use Bill Cosby words to push their racists’ bullshit which isn’t based on the situation at all, but based completely on race. (Which was seen when ole’ boy started ranting about when that Coon shot the school up) Bill Cosby dos this shit, and then get’s turned into a pawn…for what? What are these rants gonna change? Absolutely nothing. If he wants to talk to muthafuckas, put together a celebration at the park, then, when everybody is eating, and chilling and shit, get on the stage and say “Hey, I’m Bill Cosby, remember me? You used to watch my show. Guess what? It’s not fake, it’s real, you can have a black family where the mother and father are doctors, we can do this, but first, we have to work on some things,” It’s still not gonna shake up the world, but at least then his “message” will get to who it’s supposed to get to. After that, he can put together some programs where those same people that heard him speak can come, and talk about problems they have parenting and have some people with some solutions attempt to help. At these same programs the parents can get to know one another, so when they find out, their son got into it with Ramon, they can say, “Fuck that, I got Ramon’s mom’s number right here, I’m gonna call her, and were gonna work this out,” They can set up some programs that will get people into drug rehab. Then we’d have somebody WE recognize talking directly to us (instead of about us) about something that’s about something. But wait, I forgot, this is a capitalist economy; Bill Cosby didn’t make a bunch of money so he can put it back into the hood. He made it so he can put some in the hood, then sit up on top of the rest and talk shit about the hood to other people sitting on their stacks of money. So I guess that’s an idiotic idea.

So after a while of Bill Cosby saying the same shit, they fielded some questions from the audience. There were a couple of funny ones. So this teacher talks about how she tries to reach out to the parent of a child who’s struggling, yet she gets no response. Bill Cosby says in an asshole voice “You know what you do, after the final bell rings, follow the kid. Normally, following a kid will lead to some adult or authority figure. When you see what house the kid walks into, knock on that door” Somebody (I don’t really remember right now, either Cosby, Oprah, or Cosby’s co-author Poussant) said that they knew of a teacher that set up conferences with all the parents of all their students, and their kids normally did better. Well, that’d be just lovely, only problem is, teachers don’t make no damn money. They don’t get paid for that shit. It’s not in the teacher’s job specifications to teach the kid and the parent. But Brillyance, you want the great honorable Dr. Cosby to do all this stuff for the hood, why do you not expect more from teachers, you do want shit to get better right? Of course I do, and I’d love it if teachers talked to all parents, but the thing is, it wasn’t the teachers that got up on that podium and started calling the kids dummies, and stupid, and the parents idiots. If Cosby didn’t do that, I wouldn’t say shit about him. If Cosby didn’t do that, I’d being saying teachers should get paid more, and there should be more programs that get teachers to interact with parents, however, I definitely wouldn’t expect them to have to do it with the bullshit salaries their getting paid now. (At least in the hood, cuz I know private school teachers make cake like Cherokee’s momma)

So, after the question by the teacher, and then questions from a few other people, a white lady steps up to say something. First I was wondering what the hell she had to say, then I was wondering why Oprah let her normal audience members even speak on this episode. She starts off by saying “I want to talk about the N Word” (I really think that’s how she started it off too) So she goes on blaming Movies and music, saying that her kids know of the word because of movies, music and their friends. (That’s a god damn lie, you mean to tell me, SOME white people have been calling black people stupid niggers since slavery, yet your kids never heard the word nigga till they saw some movies and heard some music? STFU) All of a sudden, Oprah turned into Shameeka and was like “and your question is?” with a “bitch please” type of voice.

“I just don’t know what to do, how do I stop my kid’s from using that word”
-Random white lady (whose name Oprah just happened to know, so this was all set up, they planned to have a white person bring this up) on “the Oprah Winfrey Show”

At this point Mr. Poussant says “Tell your kids that the word has been used to hurt and demean black people for years, and that the word is wrong” After talking to Becky in the “the cow says MOooOO” voice, Poussant flips and says “Gangster rappers say they’re making the word positive…but you can’t. The same people saying they’re making the word positive are killing people at night and using the word” to applause then commercial……

Are you that fucking stupid? I’m sorry. I’ve realized I’m using a lot of profanity in something that’s supposed to be serious, but the thing is, last time when I wrote part one of the blog, I was still a little thrown off by the BET Hip Hop Awards…however that’s worn off and as I look back at the notes I took, I can’t believe this shit. It’s hard to believe that some people are that idiotic and believe that “gangster rap” is actually “gangsters making rap music”. Had this been Bill O’ Reily or some shit, I’d simply write it off as him being blind due to his racism, but I expected these uppity ass niggas (oops) to know better.

So after they come back from commercial, they have this dude from DC. As a kid, his mom was killed by her boyfriend. One day, her boyfriend was dragging her in the street, then, he went and loaded his gun. He shot the kids mom twice in the face, then he came in the house and shot the kid’s brother. As he went to the kid, he put the gun to his head. The kid begged him not to shoot him, said he’d do anything, and then he prayed to god. The boyfriend told the kid he can go. Before I go on to what the kid and Cosby and his sister talked about, why did this happen? Who was the kid’s mom, what did she do? Who was her boyfriend? We don’t know, I guess it doesn’t matter, it has nothing to do with proving their point (maybe something to do with disproving it…but who knows?) This may, William (the kid’s name) will be the first in his family to graduate from college.

Cosby: Since you lived “down there” with the drugs and all that, what do you feel?
William: It’s bad
Cosby to Williams sister: Do the people make it sound Ok? All the people “down there”?
Williams sister: yea, they ALL do…I was selling drugs, I had a baby at 16…

WOW, I didn’t know DC was like that. See, in the hood I hung out in, they’d tell kids who did good in school to stay away when they were gonna do bad shit. While you may be occasionally “peer” pressured to drink or smoke, it’s never EVERYONE who influences you to do shit some view as bad. The way the girl emphasized ALL sort of made it seem like a set up. The people who are strongly pushed to do bad shit by everybody, are normally the ones who people know can’t do anything else. Gang members normally tell the dummy “You better be down for the hood!”, however, it’s extremely rare they ask the kid with good grades “Are you gonna put in work for the set nigga?” So I really don’t believe the shit she was saying. The fact William seemed hesitant to talk about the hood negatively, then they switched to talking to his sister made it seem even more set up.

“Low expectations from teachers can cause a child to fail, low expectations from parents can crush them,”
Poussant on “The Oprah Winfrey Show”

“You don’t have to knock on doors to go in kids room, cuz in prison they don’t do that. They don’t pay rent in prison, kids don’t pay rent… When you go in the room, look under the bed, kids are stupid enough, they always hide stuff there”
Bill Cosby on “the Oprah Winfrey Show”

These statements combined pretty much explain the how show. Contradictions, low expectations, and plain fucked up thinking. Poussant speaks on how low expectations can fuck with kids, then, later on, Cosby calls kids stupid. When he does it, everyone laughs. Cosby also says that treatment in the home should be like treatment in prison. While I understand this is simply a metaphor, and doesn’t mean to completely treat kids like their in prison, that’s definitely a metaphor that should have never been made. As much as Cosby has been calling kids stupid, and dummies and such, some of the things he says make me question his intelligence. I could question “Dr.” Cosby’s intelligence, flip his words around, diss his personal life, all day, but it doesn’t matter. I feel I don’t have to, I feel it’s obvious that

A. If he really cared about the people “down there” he’d go about things a different way

B. What he’s doing isn’t helping, and will do no positive. In fact, it’s only doing negative by adding ammunition to the likes of …just about everybody on FOX news.

What about Oprah? Well, let’s look at the commercials during her show?

1. On the next episode we got…some white people with money problems

2. On another next episode (how do you have 2 next episodes?)we got…they were the other woman…what life felt like when these women found out their husband was cheating…and…the women who sued her husband’s mistress…and the results

3. The November issue of O magazine: Turn back the clock on aging (note: black don’t crack)

4. Dove commercial with white girl, to find out more go to….campaignforrealbeauty.com

5. Some cooning ass Kaiser commercial

…ok, so what I attempted to flip commercials 3 and 4 to make them seem like they were made specifically for white people… I just took what they gave me. (And besides…I can’t be serious all the time) I didn’t really have to, we all know Oprah cares about American black people less than Bush (If you got paper, Bush fucks with you. If you had paper and was looking to make more and save money while doing it, the Bush administration was great no matter what color you were)If your name isn’t Umdum Diah and you don’t have flies buzzing around your head….Oprah don’t give a fuck. According to her, you care more about PlayStation than education. Oh well…fuck them all, that’s what I say.

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