Deer's, Black men, N*ggas and Bill Cosby
I dont have anything to write about.......well except for i almost died last night! I was leaving my cousin's house last night, this guy from church was dropping me back home (cuz a few of us was watching Tyler Perry's "Meet the Browns" at her house) and we almost ran dead into a deer! The deer didnt move a inch and just stood there. We had to be like 6-12 inches from it and i was praying or hoping because i really dont remember that the car would stop. I couldnt get any words out. We were just that close. I wanted to shout "Thank you God! Thank you Jesus! but didnt, i was saying it to my self. I surely did go home and shout for a minute. The deer walked away as soon as the car stopped and i looked over to the right and there were like 6 other deer in the grass. Dang i hate Carbondale! Also i wore the suit my mama bought me for Christmas yesterday at church. i call it my grown lady suit because i feel like it's too grown for me. Thats just because i'm not use to wearing suits, but i got SO many compliments yesterday, i was blushing and cheesing like a dummy. lol, but it felt good to get those compliments. So i did look good yesterday, good looking out mama. :-) Anyways, well i guess i did have something to write about, but this is what i wanted to post. This was in our school paper today, tell me what ya'll think:Where's Bill Cosby when you need him?
Damion Campbell
Guest column
I am amazed at some of the things I see around campus, in the community and in society in general. Young black males disrespect black females, black females disrespect themselves and ignorance abounds. Where's Bill Cosby when you need him? For every thousand voices loudly declaiming the wrongs done to our community, one should exist to explain what we should do to better ourselves.
Some of the language on this campus is astounding. It amazes me to hear people calling each other nigger, nigga or whatever variation they choose to use. Do they seriously believe that the constant use of this word is weakening the meaning? Does this make it acceptable for whites to use it? We seem to have given a green light to Puerto Ricans with Fat Joe saying it every chance he gets on a record. What if whites walked around every day saying "How's it going, cracker?" What about Hispanics? I have never heard them address each other as "spic." I don't think Jesus would approve, and he didn't refer to other Jews as "Kikes."
I was walking across campus behind two black males who were smoking marijuana. Their conversation consisted of deciding to skip class and go back to the dorm to smoke. Maybe some desire to fail.
We should all understand that we are truly blessed to be able to study here or at any institution of higher learning; we are blessed to have the ability to earn a degree and increase our marketability. For some this is not enough, and they must bring the "hood" with them. For these people it is my sincere hope that the hood will give them a legal and lucrative job after they fail out of the university.
The idea that we play a role in holding ourselves back is gaining acceptance. In my view white America doesn't need to hold us back - why bother killing someone who is committing suicide? We need more scholars, doctors, politicians and artists. We need fewer hustlers, pimps, players and thugs. We idolize gun-toting rappers who claim they steal, kill and sell crack, then claim it was all an act when they go to trial. So we're idolizing liars?
Pull up your pants, put down the drugs, open a book and learn something. When you do go home and decide to help your community, get paid to do it.
A lot of people will read this and say, "He ain't no real nigga." You are correct. I am not a "nigga" at all - I am a young, black American male with a future who wants to go back to East St. Louis and ensure my community has a future. The biggest threat to black men in the United States is not AIDS, drugs, the LAPD or the white power structure - it's black men.
Many won't see my attempt to uplift and will only criticize what I say, but I pray for you. I am only opening my mouth because Bill Cosby's not here.
These views do not necessarily reflect those of the Daily Egyptian.
http://newshound.de.siu.edu/voices05/stories/storyReader$48
I thought that he had a good point, and i agree with him I also didnt find anything wrong with what Bill Cosby had to say either. It needed to be said. Especially with Fat Joe saying "nigga" i HATE that word. I really dont use it my self but i catch my self saying it because other people always use it, so i have to remind my self not to use it. Was i the only one mad at J-Ho, i mean J-Lo using that word in the song "I'm Real" with Ja-Rule? She said she only used it because he wrote the words, but why would she use it anyways? Why would he write that song and let her use it. Why the lil hispanic boy in "Coach Carter" use that word a few times? I know folks like to say "Well Puerto Ricans are pretty much black too" The heck they aint! I know they have it in their blood, but they aren't African Americans. That words was use to put down African Americans. I have a problem with Fat Joe and Jennifer Lopez using that word in their songs. I also have a problem with black folks using it. I know it maybe hard at first trying to stop, but at least try! I really do hate that word. I guess i'd be wrong for walking up to a hispanic person and call them a "spic" wouldnt i? I guess it depends on where you're from. I remember this girl i use to talk with in a music chatroom on AOl and me, her, and a few other folks got into a discussion about the word nigga. They would always get mad at me because they would call me a black nationalist, which i am not, and they would say that i was always blowing things out of proportion. She was Samoan, hispanic, and black, or something. She didnt look "Black" Anyways, she said that she uses the word nigga all the time. Also some Puerto Rican folks,t his guy and girl said they used it alot too. They were all from either NYC or somewhere ont he east coast like Philly. I was like OMG! I grew up around hispanic folks and they never used the word nigga. I guess because folks are all mixed up in NYC and all live together, they feel that it's ok to use to word if they're not black and the black folks feel that it's ok for their non-black friends to use that word. I got a problem with that. What happens when one of those non-black people come to some place, let's say, Chicago, and use that word around some black folks? What's gonna happen then? They will get their A** kicked! Thats why i have a problem with black folks using "Nigga" all the time because alot of these other groups are starting to feel like it's ok to use it. A joke can be funny without using "Nigga" and lyric in a rap can sound ok without using "nigga", but people think that they cant. I dont know. Am i making sense? Probably not. I need to put my thought together better before i write something so that i dont sound ignorant, but sometimes i dont do that. Oh well. This isnt a term paper. I got's to go buy this book before the bookstore close and make copies of it before it get too late and hand it back to the bookstore tomorrow before the deadline to get a full refund, lol, hey, i'm broke, i gotta do what i gotta do, even if it means standing up copying a book for 2 hours, lol.....have a blessed night!
3 Comments:
I didn't find anything wrong with what Cosby said either. A lot of what he said held truth in it.
I agree. I don't use the n-word. In fact it is strange, but today I was mad at some guy on a site and I called him nigga and it was my first time. my brothers use it a lot and it just popped in my head when i was emailing him.
The original meaning of the word is "dead from the neck up." it makes you think why the heck would i want to call anyone that?
oh that was me Gabi. i need to start signing in with my blogger name.
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lol yea thanks for signing into your blogger name@gabi
the guy from my churcht hat had the tape had it on bootleg i believe@napkaboom, smh!@that, he actually got it from someone else that downloaded it or something...you might want to go to www.tylerperry.com, i believe that's the site, to see if it's coming near you or on tape.
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