wrote:
jimmineecricket wrote:

"Ladies and gentlemen,
the lower economic people are not
holding up their end in this deal.

And you know this how?

THESE PEOPLE ARE NOT PARENTING.

And you know this how?

They are buying things for kids -
$500 sneakers for what?

Cite please, as to the number/percentage of lower socioeconomic
parents that buy $500 sneakers.

And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.'

Now THAT is a waste of money!

He added:

"They're standing on the corner and they CAN'T SPEAK ENGLISH.

Cite, please

I can't even talk the way these people talk:

'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ...
And I blamed the kid until I HEARD THE MOTHER TALK.

And then I HEARD THE FATHER TALK ...

They speak a different dialect. This has always been a country of
multiple dialects, and the dialectal variation was never nearly as
extreme as it is in much smaller England. You can't talk the way
"these people talk" (not that it had anything to do with "lower
economics", which the poster is clearly using as a euphemism for
race), but I'll bet you can't talk Cockney or Yorkshire either, and
you probably can't understand them half as well as you could
understand these folk.

Everybody knows it's important to
speak English except these knuckleheads. ...

On street corners? Why?

You can't be a doctor with that
kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"

A doctor on a street corner is perfectly free to talk any way he
likes.

He wont get any arguement here. He told it like it is and the NAACP just doesnt
want to hear the truth. Most blacks dont want to hear the truth. They are their
own worst enemy.

Bob and Byron don't want to hear the *truth* either. Do you
suppose they think Cosby is just an *Idiot_Scum_Racist* who
is "not worth arguing with" and should be *PLONKED* ??

When Cosby posts to the newsgroup, I'll discuss it with him, and then
decide whether he should be *PLONKED*. I daresay his remarks would be
far more intelligent than yours.

lojbab
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Bob LeChevalier, Founder, The Logical Language Group
(Opinions are my own; I do not speak for the organization.)
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