Showing posts with label Bill Cosby. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Bill Cosby. Show all posts
Friday, May 2, 2008
Thursday, February 28, 2008
While "Thriller" Celebrates It's 25th Anniversary, Brother Jackson Is In Foreclosure Hell With Neverland
Michael Seeks To Keep Ranch From Being Auctioned McCain Disowns Radio Host's Anti-Obama Rant
IRS Investigating Obama's Church
Obama Backs Israel, Rejects Farrakhan's Backing
Day in Court Reduces Paultre-Bell to Tears
IRS Investigating Obama's Church
Obama Backs Israel, Rejects Farrakhan's Backing
Day in Court Reduces Paultre-Bell to Tears
NYC Pays $21M to Settle Class Action Race Suit
Case Against Congressman Jefferson Began in Africa
Black Ohioans Backing Clinton Feel the Pressure to Switch
Case Against Congressman Jefferson Began in Africa
Black Ohioans Backing Clinton Feel the Pressure to Switch
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Bill Cosby May Have "Issues" With The Ladies, But He's Speaking Truth About The State Of Black Folks
Last Sunday on Meet The Press, Cosby broke it down, don't you agree?
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
Monday, October 15, 2007
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Folks Who Don't Get It: Fox News Bill O'Reilly Expected A Beatdown In Harlem, The Idiot!
Monday, September 10, 2007
New Pics From The VMA Awards On The Web: Why Kanye West Is So Sour Tops The Day's News
Tuesday, July 3, 2007
ACROSS AMERICA, DATELINE: FLINT MICHIGAN CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE
It was at the center at least for this past weekend.
Home to 13 murders as well as last weekend's PGA Buick Open, Three Brothers and A Sister was on the scene, covering it all!
Why? Because “when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then …" Let me stop and hit that part latter in the story. For now let me run down the strange but true haps' in Flint Michigan last weekend.
HEADLINE - A record 13 murders over a three day period. Maybe this is your town too.
SPORTS - For any town it doesn’t get much better than having a major PGA golf tournament. This week Flint is hosting The Buick Open!
But Tiger is not here for the tournament, as he and wife just had a baby. He's choosing family time (Lebron are ya’ listening?) over work.
So now the national sports story is “Tiger's absence means low attendance at this year’s Buick Open, and low television ratings.” Not since Michael Jordan, has there been a cry for a single athlete to be compensated by the league (in this case the PGA) for what he brings to each town and television ratings.
POLITICS – Flint is in the middle of a hotly contested mayoral race. The incumbent is Don Williamson, a former used car salesman who had to give up his dealerships. Why? Something to do with that convicted felon status. Wow! Does this sound familiar D.C.?
COMMUNITY - Bill Cosby returns to Flint to see what change and progress has been made since his last appearance here.
In these events throughout the country, the press has always highlighted the outrageous and hypocritical things exposed by Dr. Cosby.
In truth Bill Cosby’s mere appearance has really become a lightning rod for groups to address communities who for the most part are passive and who would not normally show up for these “call to action” town halls.
Cosby Quotes -- “Who Jesus is and who God is … He’s not coming, he’s already here. He is inside you and you are the only one who can make Jesus lie dormant.”
“Don’t worry that you are not your child’s best friend. Let that happen later when they are older and have some sense. Give your children CONFIDENCE. You teach it in. You hug it in. They won’t have it if you didn’t give it to them!”
ENTERTAINMENT – Well 60’s dinosaur music group the 5th Dimension is in town. I’m not one to sling dirt but there’s a reason Florence is the only original left. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Let’s just say affairs with married people within the group can be nasty business for all concerned even those who know, but keep their mouth shut.
OP-ED - And there is no one more opinionated than “poster child for the left” filmmaker Michael Moore, who's movie "Sicko" is causing all kind of buzz.
In the film Michael goes after the wacked out Health Care problem in the US. But just driving around Flint one is taken back to the O.G. the original Michael Moore film that set his career ablaze and that docudrama was "ROGER AND ME" (1989)
FLASHBACK: Roger and Me was Michael Moore’s relentless pursuit of then General Motors (GM) top exec. Roger Smith. He chased him for 90 minutes with the purpose of asking him why GM was closing auto-plant after auto-plant in Flint (known since the 50’s as Buick City, and Car City. 18 years later, looks like neither Flint nor GM are in no better shape.
Stat!
Home to 13 murders as well as last weekend's PGA Buick Open, Three Brothers and A Sister was on the scene, covering it all!
Why? Because “when the moon is in the seventh house and Jupiter aligns with Mars, then …" Let me stop and hit that part latter in the story. For now let me run down the strange but true haps' in Flint Michigan last weekend.
HEADLINE - A record 13 murders over a three day period. Maybe this is your town too.
SPORTS - For any town it doesn’t get much better than having a major PGA golf tournament. This week Flint is hosting The Buick Open!
But Tiger is not here for the tournament, as he and wife just had a baby. He's choosing family time (Lebron are ya’ listening?) over work.So now the national sports story is “Tiger's absence means low attendance at this year’s Buick Open, and low television ratings.” Not since Michael Jordan, has there been a cry for a single athlete to be compensated by the league (in this case the PGA) for what he brings to each town and television ratings.
POLITICS – Flint is in the middle of a hotly contested mayoral race. The incumbent is Don Williamson, a former used car salesman who had to give up his dealerships. Why? Something to do with that convicted felon status. Wow! Does this sound familiar D.C.?
COMMUNITY - Bill Cosby returns to Flint to see what change and progress has been made since his last appearance here.In these events throughout the country, the press has always highlighted the outrageous and hypocritical things exposed by Dr. Cosby.
In truth Bill Cosby’s mere appearance has really become a lightning rod for groups to address communities who for the most part are passive and who would not normally show up for these “call to action” town halls.
Cosby Quotes -- “Who Jesus is and who God is … He’s not coming, he’s already here. He is inside you and you are the only one who can make Jesus lie dormant.”
“Don’t worry that you are not your child’s best friend. Let that happen later when they are older and have some sense. Give your children CONFIDENCE. You teach it in. You hug it in. They won’t have it if you didn’t give it to them!”
ENTERTAINMENT – Well 60’s dinosaur music group the 5th Dimension is in town. I’m not one to sling dirt but there’s a reason Florence is the only original left. Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Let’s just say affairs with married people within the group can be nasty business for all concerned even those who know, but keep their mouth shut.
OP-ED - And there is no one more opinionated than “poster child for the left” filmmaker Michael Moore, who's movie "Sicko" is causing all kind of buzz.
In the film Michael goes after the wacked out Health Care problem in the US. But just driving around Flint one is taken back to the O.G. the original Michael Moore film that set his career ablaze and that docudrama was "ROGER AND ME" (1989)
FLASHBACK: Roger and Me was Michael Moore’s relentless pursuit of then General Motors (GM) top exec. Roger Smith. He chased him for 90 minutes with the purpose of asking him why GM was closing auto-plant after auto-plant in Flint (known since the 50’s as Buick City, and Car City. 18 years later, looks like neither Flint nor GM are in no better shape.Stat!
Saturday, June 9, 2007
BILL COSBY VS PACMAN JONES: WHO'S THE BIGGER FOOL? (Part 2)
Commentary by Jayar Jackson
Back in 2004, Bill Cosby spoke out at an NAACP gala marking the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education.
Cosby went into a bit of a rant, sharply criticizing the behavior of many poor Black people in poor Black communities.
In the weeks that followed, he continued to speak out on in the mainstream media. He told CNN’s Paula Zahn that the problem begins with the parents, not parenting or talking to their children.
While many leaders in the Black community spoke up and defended Cosby. I was infuriated. Not because Cosby was “airing our dirty laundry,” or because the things he was saying were not true. They were just being said to the wrong people.
People not associated with the Black community that don’t even know what really goes on there only saw “Papa Cosby” tell his people the same thing others have been wanting to say to them with a their detached, critical eye.
This only perpetuates negative stereotypes from people that enjoy putting up more barriers to the few that fight horrible situations to make it out of the hood, the way Cosby did.
Cosby simplified the situation the way an ignorant, affluent, and detached person of another race would assess it. To simply say, “get up and do better” doesn’t cut it when you don’t factor in why the parents aren’t being parents, or why 12 year old kids feel that they need to stand on a dangerous street corner and sell drugs.
If Cosby’s actions were foolish, Adam 'Pacman' Jones’ were grotesque. Headlining stories about a rich, young Black man sparking such a melee in Las Vegas will always overshadow anything positive many young Black men do for themselves and their families.This millionaire athlete with his entire life ahead of him has decided to ignore advice from his family, coaches, employers, and apparently the multiple warnings from law enforcement to stop acting like he has very few choices to escape an abhorrent lifestyle many of us get involved in.
It seems that Pacman grew up with negative things affecting him…his father was shot in the back of the head and killed when he was only 5 years old.
These kinds of things shape a person, but now its time for him to get some help, to realize that beating on women and threatening a bouncer’s life because he was doing his job aren’t ok because you have money in the bank.
Maybe Pacman and Bill should get together and have a talk sans the microphones, cameras, and handcuffs, so that Cosby can tell one of the people that actually needs to hear it.
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