Bill Cosby Speech Response

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Bill Cosby Speech Kiel Barton I agree with what Bill Cosby says, he speaks on things that happen every day. The African American community is all a product of laziness. Nobody wants to do work anymore. We think we made it to the metaphorical Promised Land so we stopped working, we got lazy. Bill Cosby says “In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye.” That was years before I was born. Everyone was still hungry for success, blacks nationwide could still feel the full wrath of racism, and as a result they worked hard to overcome the struggle consuming their daily lives. Now they got it so they stopped trying. Nobody is passing on the hard working traits to their children. A generation of slackers is taking over the world, where will we be in ten years? If things are bad now, what way will African Americans turn? Bill Cosby says, “We have to take our neighborhood back.” This is exactly what blacks need to do in order to get back on the path to success. We need to raise our children to be what we need, hardworking individuals. We need to teach the youth to dress =, and not let them walk around with their pants on their butts. We need to teach our children how to act in public, teach them the importance of an education. We need to stop the violence amongst ourselves in the streets. Fifty percent of drop out or go to prison; we need to focus on strategies on how to fix that. Our problems can only be resolved at the home. Black families need to get it together and teach their children right, so they can grow up and do good for our kind. We need to move up in the world and earn our own respect as a race. We have come too far as a whole to mess up
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