"We don’t need another Hero. We don’t need to know the way home." All we want is life beyond the cruel speakers about African-American kids. Far right: Lewis Harris Jr., Education, Public Safety and Health Businessman attends a Bipartisan event in support of defining ways, uplifting African-American kids for a better Philadelphia. Unlike Cosby, Harris Jr. speaks volumes of truth without name-calling to redirect cool kids: keep backpacks full of books instead of emptiness.
Cosby And Vick, Philly Doesn't Need Another Hero For Cool Kids
by Van Stone vspfoundation@yahoo.com (215) 747-8746
First of all there’s no individual I know of in the book of Genesis who was born an adult. That goes for William Henry, Jr. alias Cosby, US entertainer too. Cosby was born into a poor family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was a kid amongst others that walked somewhere when school let out. He grabbed on his friends like other ordinary kids and did and said things from time to time that any positive adult might not feel was appropriate for school. Philadelphia has never had the history of being a town with low child delinquency, non-restless students, the elite of the school athletes, or an esoteric book on 19th-century poor-class black family terms. In other words, Cosby can’t deny being on (black kids) escapades when we stole the other teams (black kid’s) mascot. We still live in the era of the poor black kid that goes to city school. Cosby didn’t go to school in the home-school era where mom and dad keep the dirty laundry in the same building that kids attended school. Kids knew then and today, they are never to be considered by anyone as "dirty laundry." Yet, here we are 70 years without Cosby, 1937-, the advertising spokesperson for major companies that support kids, speaking many of his ideas about black kids in Philly. Cosby ideas come from family life with his friends whom are out of touch with the Philadelphia African-American Community and school.
Being without Cosby is no emotional dilemma. It’s not anti-Cosby either. Cosby is not important to African-American business success for the week to remain in business. The plain truth of the matter is that folks out of touch with African-American children’s needs support Cosby when he gives speeches mixed with some truth but mainly having the unacceptable name calling and taking, and exploiting black kids' spirit. But super NFL quarterback Michael Vick has never been quoted as exploiting black kids or calling them names that any school teacher would be fought against if ever heard saying black kids are "dirty laundry." Vick apologized to kids, (especially poor black kids) for participating in "dog fighting." Vick wanted kids to know that he was aware that kids looked up to him.
When Cosby was called to the carpet to apologize for his nasty remarks about black kids he not only refused to do so but also created a war of words and action by telling parents that their school age children were "dirty laundry." More Cosby. "To the critics who pose, it's unproductive to air our dirty laundry in public," he responds, "Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 everyday. It's cursing on the way home, on the bus, train, in the candy store. They are cursing and grabbing each other and going nowhere."
"The book bag is very, very thin because there's nothing in it. Don't worry about the white man," he added. "I couldn't care less about what white people think about me. Let them talk. What are they saying that is so different from what their grandfathers said and did to us? What is different is what we are doing to ourselves," Cosby said. Cosby is just an elitist who has aged to the point where blacks and whites in business will do better if he just stayed out of Philly. One individual who does business involving both black and white poor families is businessman Lewis Harris Jr. of Southwest/West Philadelphia.
Harris Jr. understand the plight of the black poor and supports certain school operations and easy access to public safety radio communications, all fire department staff and face-to-face cool kid talk whenever possible. Should an unexpected event occur after school (i.e. sudden unexpected horse play or bad language), Harris Jr. uses his company to plan scheduled resources to create safe corridors at schools so that kids can disburse with books used to do homework. For kid’s sake, don’t support cruelty to animals or children.
