Thread: Can We Finally Say Good-bye To The Boo-Hoo Movement?

In a 2007 article co-authored by Bill Cosby, titled, Blacks must drop victimhood and reclaim dignity

Cosby said the following:

“It is time to think positively and act positively. A people armed with the will to want to get better, armed with the will to win, and armed with knowledge of the past and present, can move forward and take action, succeed, and reclaim their dignity.”

Bill Cosby
Alvin F. Poussaint
CS Monitor
Nov. 8, 2007

Practically all Americans know who Bill Cosby is.

Mr. Cosby has spoken forcefully and often about the need for every individual to take responsibility for his own actions, suggesting quite strongly, that by doing so, each person’s efforts will take him as far as his capabilities allow.

Black author Shelby Steele said the following:

“we must acknowledge one of the most profound achievements in recent human history: the death of white supremacy. ...Here was an event far more world-altering than the collapse of communism”...



…today racism swims upstream…it no longer stunts the lives of blacks.

Shelby Steele goes on to point out that black victimology has become an “enormous source of power for the left since the 1960’s.”

Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institute is a prolific author and economist renowned for extensive research, heavily laced with “empirical evidence”

Much of the evidence presented by Thomas Sowell supports the idea that “black progress was much more positive prior to the significant rise of the welfare state, and prior to the era of affirmative action.”

The huge majority of Americans are people of good will.

For the last 40 years or so, America has in very large measure, been color-blind.
Another of Thomas Sowell's themes is "to show the painful but steady rise of blacks in the US against heavy odds before massive intervention by government programs, a rise that contradicts some popular assumptions."

The situation here is not perfect, but considering opportunity here in America, and the wealth that minorities have obtained, which dwarfs most minorities elsewhere, the time really is past to continue using victimology.

Completing high school, making one's self valuable at the workplace, and making good responsible decisions is still the way to get one's share of the American Dream.

We don't all have the capability to end up rich, but we can still get sufficiently ahead.

Corporations and other outside forces do not keep us down.

We all are, wherever we have put ourselves.


Let’s end the boo-hoo movement today.

Originally Posted by Camlow

The huge majority of Americans are people of good will.

We're your ancestors slaves? Can you personaly describe what it feels like to have non blacks cross the street to avoid you? Can you tell me how it feels to have a security guard mobilize to defcon five because you walked into a store full of whites? How many times this year have you been pulled over and taken out of the car because you fit the description of someone?

Until you have experienced this small baptism of sorts of negative African American experiences you should save the "BooHoo" comments because you haven't earned the right to pass judgement on what black people have experienced and what they should do.

"A mile in a man's shoes"

I take back everything I said if you're black.

Originally Posted by Camlow

In a 2007 article co-authored by Bill Cosby, titled, Blacks must drop victimhood and reclaim dignity

Cosby said the following:

“It is time to think positively and act positively. A people armed with the will to want to get better, armed with the will to win, and armed with knowledge of the past and present, can move forward and take action, succeed, and reclaim their dignity.”

Bill Cosby
Alvin F. Poussaint
CS Monitor
Nov. 8, 2007

Practically all Americans know who Bill Cosby is.

Mr. Cosby has spoken forcefully and often about the need for every individual to take responsibility for his own actions, suggesting quite strongly, that by doing so, each person’s efforts will take him as far as his capabilities allow.

Black author Shelby Steele said the following:

“we must acknowledge one of the most profound achievements in recent human history: the death of white supremacy. ...Here was an event far more world-altering than the collapse of communism”...



…today racism swims upstream…it no longer stunts the lives of blacks.

Shelby Steele goes on to point out that black victimology has become an “enormous source of power for the left since the 1960’s.”

Dr. Thomas Sowell of the Hoover Institute is a prolific author and economist renowned for extensive research, heavily laced with “empirical evidence”

Much of the evidence presented by Thomas Sowell supports the idea that “black progress was much more positive prior to the significant rise of the welfare state, and prior to the era of affirmative action.”

The huge majority of Americans are people of good will.

For the last 40 years or so, America has in very large measure, been color-blind.
Another of Thomas Sowell's themes is "to show the painful but steady rise of blacks in the US against heavy odds before massive intervention by government programs, a rise that contradicts some popular assumptions."

The situation here is not perfect, but considering opportunity here in America, and the wealth that minorities have obtained, which dwarfs most minorities elsewhere, the time really is past to continue using victimology.

Completing high school, making one's self valuable at the workplace, and making good responsible decisions is still the way to get one's share of the American Dream.

We don't all have the capability to end up rich, but we can still get sufficiently ahead.

Corporations and other outside forces do not keep us down.

We all are, wherever we have put ourselves.


Let’s end the boo-hoo movement today.

I love Shelby Steele. When I need a good laugh I read some of his writings.


Tell me Cam, how did his prediction that Obama would never be elected President turn out? I haven't heard.

while i agree with the sentiments of bill cosby, and have for a while, i don't think its appropriate to label this the "boo-hoo movement". it just isn't neccesary, and only hurts the cause, and creates tension in the same vain where we're trying to claim it doesn't exist anymore.

it would be like fighting with your wife, talking it out, apologizing and making up, and then as soon as you're done, saying, "ok bitch, now go make me a sandwich."

So is Bill Cosby wrong when he says we must drop victimhood and think and act positively?

Please a direct yes or no to this question, before the normal knee-jerk responses, that dominate so many replies.

Originally Posted by Camlow

So is Bill Cosby wrong when he says we must drop victimhood and think and act positively?

Please a direct yes or no to this question, before the normal knee-jerk responses, that dominate so many replies.

It's not a yes no question. Sorry, you fail to support your argument with anything more than rhetoric.

I'm waiting for the Republican "Boo-Hoo Movement" created by Obama's win to get over with.