Michael Eric Dyson by Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?

Author:Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind?
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: Sociology, Psychology, African American Studies, General, Family & Relationships, Interpersonal Relations, Ethnic Studies, Social Classes, Discrimination & Race Relations, Social Science
ISBN: 0465017207
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2005-01-02T06:00:00+00:00

Chapter Four

Family Values

No longer is a person embarrassed because they’re pregnant without a husband. (clapping) No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child (clapping)… Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. (clapping) In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because behind every drawn shade was an eye (laughing). And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you have on, where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today … 50 percent drop out, I’m telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men. Under what excuse? “I want somebody to love me.” And as soon as you have it, you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing about love or respect of any one of the three of ’em (clapping) … If you knock that girl up, you’re gonna have to run away because it’s going to be too embarrassing for your family. And in the old days, a girl get pregnant, she had to go down South, and then her mother would go down to get her. But the mother had the baby. I said the mother had the baby. The girl didn’t have a baby. The mother had the baby—in two weeks. (laughter) We are not parenting … Five, six children, same woman, eight, ten different husbands or whatever. Pretty soon you’re going to have to have DNA cards so you can tell who you’re making love to. You don’t know who dis is; might be your grandmother. (laughter) I’m telling you, they’re young enough. Hey, ya have a baby when you’re twelve. Your baby turns thirteen and has a baby, how old are you? Huh? Grandmother. By the time you’re twelve, you can have sex with your grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I’m just predicting … Therefore, you have this pile up of these sweet beautiful things born by nature, raised by no one. Give ’em presents. You’re raising pimps. That’s what a pimp is. Pimp act nasty to you so you have to go out and get ’em something. Then you bring it back and maybe he or she will hug. And that’s why pimp is so famous for them.

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