Quote:
Originally posted by Honeykiss1974
LEONARD PITTS: AIRING DIRTY LAUNDRY IS A SIGN OF PROGRESS
Our question for today: Do white people matter? It's Bill Cosby who inspires me to ask. In May, you'll recall, he made headlines for criticizing the "lower economic people" in African America for what he saw as their ungrammatical locution and dysfunctional behavior. On July 1, he was at it again, saying in an appearance at the annual Rainbow/ PUSH Coalition Conference in Chicago that black youth are the "dirty laundry" many people would prefer he not criticize.
"Let me tell you something," he said. "Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other the N-word as they're walking up and down the street. They think they're hip. They can't read. They can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere."
Read the rest of the article here
|
Leonard Pitts is a favorite of mine. He's also preached some of this self-reliance and bringing our issues to light.
And he makes a great point: The bigot strain of white folks won't change. Why are we giving those people power over us? Just keep moving and work to figure out some solutions, while keeping in mind that not everyone's going to advance in lockstep.