Bill Cosby on Face Book

The first major "concert" event I ever attended was a Cosby show at the U of I or maybe WSU in the fall of 1967. It cleaned my checking account out for a couple of weeks, but oh what a show. "How long can you tread water?" became a cliche on campus.

I've enjoyed his frank, tell it like it is, approach to several serious issues facing society for a long time now. This wouldn't be the first one I've forwarded to a ton of folks on my e-mail list.

No doubt, the world could use more people like him.

Wonderful

HERE HERE.........The man made his way,and he knows how, to bad some don't take his advice.He has talked common sense without the foul mouth for decades. RIGHT ON BILL.

THANKS ....PA...the only thing school does is make you think,I NEVER KNEW THERE WAS ANYTHING WRONG WITH THAT,HOW ABOUT YOU?

MY 15 yr old granddaughter will ask more questions than you can answer,but don't fool yourself she has some pretty good answers and that is the way we want her.And I COULD NO MORE PREDICT SHE IS GOING YO BE A LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE THAN THE MAN IN THE MOON.I will predict she will be a fair thinker and we can go from there.She loves school but I will admite we encourage that all the time,she doesn't want to miss a day for anything and was les bois student of the month last month.I tell her learning is the foundation of your life and all learning about everything is welcome so that your decision have a firm foundation.......any how I am probally bragging I love her that much.ILL stop now...........later

Proud Grandpa Lamont, you certainly deserve to brag all you want, she sounds like a very remarkable young lady.

I got to thinking about what Bill Cosby had to say, I read it several times.

I don't understand what he was saying?

"Someone working at Wal-Mart with seven kids, you are hurting us."

So we are to assume he is talking about a single mother?

WELL ...I am going to take a stab at the comment MS.M.......WETHER WE LIKE IT OR NOT THERE ARE PERCEPTIONE OUT THERE IN THIS WORLD THAT PEOPLE ACT UPOUN.I think BiLL was pointing that out7 kids working at wal mart says a lot of things to some and most are negative,you are irresponsible,you are on public assistance,you lives in low incomes subsides housing,you get food stamps,your not home to supervise them and last but not least do you have a husband??? Now I know that those sterotypes are applied to a lot of people and they are applied across the board but for some reason they stick out when it's people of colour.I could take a lot of time and discuss why that scenario plays out but it mostly has to do with economics and a sense that I should get mine,but more than that it's a need to feel good about something,and I can do something right.(MAKING BABIES) The act of trying to appeal to a man and anchor him by having his children.When neither of you are fully capable of making a living you either pull together through thick or thin to make it happen or one or the other gets frustrated with getting as they see it nowhere and leaves.That only compounds the problem but it does give relief to one or the other and the cycle starts over again.Moving from one person to another believe it or not is a legacy left over from slavery as we were sold and moved at the will of chattel.I DONT LIKE THAT LEGACY BUT IT DOES PLAY INTO IT....HOWEVER IT IS LONG OVER DUE TO GET THERE HEADS OUT AND WALK THE WALK.THAT TAKES EDUCATION...There has to be someone who points out that you have to have it, not to be a basketball player or football player etc that is the easy way, but the knock down get down struggle in the class room.The idea that football is a vehicle to get and education and the education is what you need not football.MOST things that trigger the sterotypes if you really look at them is the attempt to feel good and say I am the same and or better than you.......anyhow I hope that helps.....I feel like I am back in the class room.......smile I don't type well enough for this and it could take all day......call me some time we can discuss it .......later

Lamont keep braggin on that granddaughter she sounds like one smart girl.

Bill Cosby is my all time favorite comedian. His humor doesn't just rely on shock appeal and vulgarity to make people laugh, he uses a lot of stuff that the average person can relate their real life.

It's also nice to see a blog on here that we can all agree on.

Thanks MsMarylin

Thanks Lamont and Patrick for helping me understand what he was saying. I thought maybe he didn't like wal mart lol!

TundraRat Thanks for your kind words. I just might do some more of these type blogs. My blood pressure has been running really high and I am already taking 2 pills so I'm trying to stay away from the political blogs. At least until I can get it to come down..

Lamont yeah were due for a talk its been awhile.

TrevorKnows I agree with you, Lamont did a great job explaining it to me. Lamont is a very smart man, he knows what he's talking about!

MORAL MAJORITY......I would have to ask other than the media,a book,or some other type of knowledge what do you know of the minority community??? you cant critercise from what you think only from what you know,and truthfully that is part of the problem ,the paternalistic part of we know whats best for you.What happened to minoritys in this country did not happen solely of there own accord and it doesn't continue of it's own accord.That also is what mr COSBY IS SPEAKING OF.....IT makes me personally angry when people critercise but do not even have a minority friend that they speak to........ I said it before ask before you critercise usually there is a reason.......not and alibi a reason..........later

THANKS TREVOR I COULDNT HAVE SAID IT BETTER,YOU MUST HAVE BEEN READING MY MIND......LATER

TRUTH BE TOLD if you are not the first person in your family born here ie; SECOND GENERATION YOU ARE AND AMERICAN BY RACE .......GET USE TO IT IT'S REAL.............HOW FUNNY.......

M&M.....that must have been a pretty poor neighborhood.I am glad you said the sixty's also.I CANT VOUCH FOR WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN CALIF FORNIA.I would ask was that children talk and what they thought was bragging or was it in your opinion thinking back on it genuine.There parents would have been cosby's generation and they deffenitly were not into welfare.They were into work hard buy house car and send your kids to college.

I can tell you that were and when I grew up no one saw welfare as a job.FOR THAT MATTER MOST WERE ASHAMED TO ASK FOR FOOD STAMPS WELFARE OR ANY OTHER ASSISTANCE.I WAS BORN AND RAISED IN B KLYN n.y..now don't get me wrong THERE WERE PLACES THAT I am sure that were full of people on welfare.I BELIEVE LIKE ANYTHING ELSE MOST PEOPLE ARE FOLLOWERS AND THERE FOR THEY FOLLOW OTHERS.

THE POINT I AM TRYING TO MAKE IS YOU CANT ASSUME THAT AND ENTIRE COMMUNITY SUBSCRIBES TO A WAY OF LIFE THAT IS DETRIMENTAL TO THEM BECAUSE THAT IS NOT TRUE.

The other factor that plays in here is economic.When a black enterprenaur goes to the bank in those days wanting to open a business in the community no matter how much of his own capital he had he was turned down.IT was not until the community started supporting home grown banks that that changed.That change fostered community ,local owned stores and outlets that created jobs and kept the money in the community.I pointed this outbefore REV AL has some commercials out were he is filmed in bklyn those pictuers are not posed pictures they are in the community and I WOULD BET THEY DONT FIT IF YOU LOOK AT THE BACKGROUND A LOT OF PEOPLES STEROTYPES I played on those streets he lives on one of those streets he filmed on.Times have changed and for some reason the pride and purpose I was raised with has been choked and yes it needs to change in some places, but do not assume that and entire group subscribes to the welfare business,and the media ought to be ashamed of it self for pushing minority's are the only ones on welfare .I WOULD LIKE THEM TO PUT SOME FACES ON FROM APPLACHIA,were the ethic is the same but the faces are white but we never seem to talk about them why?? I can tell you, it doesn't make the owners feel good.

THANKS FOR SHARING M&M......hope I GAVE YOU A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE........LATER

THANKS ....PA.......TRUTHFULLY I don't like the behavior either because it is counter productive and proves nothing.SERVES no purpose other than to set you apart.YES I am and old fuddy-duddy also......smile......later

LET me remind you that left to there own devices we would still have slavery in this country.NOT ONE STATE THAT WAS A SLAVE STATE REBUKED VOLUNTARILY.IT was the government that ensured slavery was removed and believe it or not they didn't do a good job of it.Therfore a lot of people do not see the government as there enemy.The government had to step in so I COULD GET AND EDUCATION......Brown vs the board of education.NOTHING WAS DONE VOLUNTARILY TO GET RID OF SLAVERY DID YOU KNOW THAT UNTIL 1997 IT WAS STILL ILLEGAL IN 2 STATES TO BE INTERRACIAL MARRIED.The government had to intercede. GOVERNMENT HAS GOOD POINTS AND BAD AND UNLIKE SOME, SOME PEOPLE DONT SEE IT AS ALL BAD.

I could ask based on there rehetoric is the neo conservative much more than a tyrant wanting to enslave.And I am being nice. Don't label till you look in your own back door There is a reason for most things so please look before you leap.

AGAIN you only paid attention to what you wanted........there were many places were they cut off the time to vote in minority neighberhoods but let the time for voting remain the same in other areas.THAT MY FRIEND IS DISENFRANCHISMENT.tHE PHOTO ID all of a sudden became a real important issue when it appeared the GOP could not carry certain precients,not until then was it real important.I am not saying it's wrong to want one no problem I like many questioned the timing,of the requirement.So if you are going to make and issue of it lets tell the whole story.

I hear YOUR CHARGES TO BAD NONE OF THAT WAS PROVEN.IF it was legit the gop would have went to court so I personally tend to think it wasn't credible. You did not address what I said.The voting times and places were changed at the last minute you still insist upoun the party line no matter what the overwhelming facts are.And for your information there was no organized effort on the part of acorn to falsify voters......again people were paid by how many people they registered so as usual people cheated by making up names and people,It was proven that the administraters of acorn had nothing to do with it.BEFORE THAT COULD BE PROVEN THE gop HAD ENSURED ACORN WOULD BE DESTROYED AND I HOPE BECAUSE IT ORGANIZED THE MINORITY VOTE THAT IT MADE THE gop HAPPY.And now that I AM AROUSED LET ME SAY THAT THE gop WILL do what ever it can to depress the minority vote because they at this time they cant get it,AND THEY WONT FOR SOME TIME.

tHE more you send out the RAND PAULS who thinks he can talk down to us the worst it will get.What he did at HOWARD UNV was and insult.SO keep it up the road you are on serves nothing.

Your last statement has been the consenses in this country for decades now the difference is that now you are starting to loose and it doesn't feel good.noBODY SHOULD HAVE TO LOOSE BUT THAT IS THE WAY IT HAS BEEN PLAYED AND CONTINUES TO THIS DAY,AT OUR EXSPENCE...........LATER

Your wasting your time Lamont. Time and time again you have proven to him on many issues, that the old bazookaman was wrong. AND he still comes back with his rhetoric which is his OPINIONS not FACTS.

I think he needs to crack open a book and get the facts.

READ what I said....... I DONT HAVE A PROBLEM WITH id.I HAD A PROBLEM WITH TIMING THAT THE gop CARED TO PRESS THE ISSUE.IF you check it out most said the same as I am now. They waited to the last minute to make a push at something that they knew would be hard to comply with.From colleg kids to the elderly and they want to know why they are disliked at this point in time.Even repubs questioned the timing,doesnt that mean anything or were they turncoats??????YOU have the wrong idea of what people are all about,and that goes to the my way or the hi way.

RUBIO,PAUL TURNCOATS.....THAT'S RICH,LEGALIZE FROM NOGALES TO MEXICO CITY.....THAT'S SO MUCH NONSENSE IT'S UNREAL.......WHY DO YOU SAY THINGS LIKE THAT????.......NONE OF IT HOLDS WATER AND IT JUST FOSTERS BAD FEELINGS I DONT GET IT.?????

So will that 15% flat tax bring back the big USA corporations from over yonder? Or that flat tax doesn't apply to the businesses?

I think that's a record!

Lamonts public Playing is very wide. He not only plays his music in Mountain Home, he also performs all over the state. Your missing some good quality talent if you haven't seen him & his band perform