In part 3 of 5 of NBC News’ African American Women, Rehema Ellis takes a look at the relationships among black men and women [ NBC Nightly News ]

I can only speak for myself, I’ve never been afraid of an educated woman.

“That is my s**t right there!” — Katt Williams

The ladies did make a point in the video stating that there are men out there who are afraid of an educated black woman. I agree. That can be attributed to ego. But in my experience, I’ve seen some women out there on the other end of the spectrum. I’ve seen (more often than not) where an educated black woman would act like she’s too good for the next man. And then blame the man for not wanting to deal with a “strong black woman”.

Hey, I’m just calling it like I see it. And this isn’t about black men. So I’ll leave it right there unless you want to take it there. I’m an open-minded fella, and I do believe that there is push and pull on both ends. But when it comes to societal matters, I do believe that the short end of the stick is definitely in the black man’s hands. Nevertheless, that’s not a complaint, just another hurdle one must jump.

Tomorrow… Hip-Hop’s Influence. Stop It.

Back in ‘57, blacks were turned away from going into an desegregated school by ignorant, hateful, and frightened individuals. Today, you can’t even get lil’ ray-ray to goto school.

Back in ‘57, the afformentionned were spat on, cursed at, threatened, and abused all because they wanted to learn. Today, lil’ ray-ray spat, cursed at, and threatened the TEACHER! whoa.

I personally went through a period of “school is corny” back in high school. But I didn’t fall off bad enough to not graduate on time.

The Little Rock Nine were Thelma Mothershed, Minnijean Brown, Elizabeth Eckford, Gloria Ray; Top row, left to right: Jefferson Thomas, Melba Pattillo, Terrence Roberts, Carlotta Walls, NAACP President Daisy Bates and Ernest Green. Heroes!

Yet, the nation hasn’t caught up. And some individuals will make any excuse to perpetuate the view and attitudes of those from earlier.

Now that Imus has been fired, what now?

Now that another white guy has exposed himself.

Will we now hold ALL human beings of all races and creeds in this country accountable for their words? Will we protest and demonstrate before all who choose such paths? Or will we only demonize those in duck-duck-goose fashion?

Because according to Snoop, words are only words in the context of how somebody meant for them to be said. So one cannot equate such lyrics altogether with such words from any ol’ idiot. I guess in a way I can understand where he is coming from on that. Who’d want to be prosecuted for what they may or may’ve not said on wax or mp3 anyway.

Zillz is a progressive african american.

“I have a problem with people sitting there and saying God and Jesus will find a way.” — Cosby
Hey I can cosign with that. Atleast he’s not just shitting on people this time. From Yahoo!.

He also said he had a problem “with churches who allow drug dealers to set up two blocks away.” The audience cheered several times during Cosby’s remarks.

The star of the hit situation comedy “The Cosby Show” was at the University of the District of Columbia as part of his nationwide tour, “A Call Out with Cosby,” which is designed to spark debate about family and educational issues among black communities.

Cosby joined a panel of local agency officials and other experts and took questions from the audience during two sessions, one to help foster parents and grandparents who are rearing children and the other geared toward the general public.

Cosby wasn’t as biting as he was in Washington in May 2004, when he made headlines telling the NAACP Legal Defense Fund that blacks spoke poor English and spent money frivolously. But he touched on similar themes during Tuesday’s panel and maintained that African Americans shouldn’t blame their problems on others.

Washington Mayor Anthony Williams presented the comedian with a ceremonial proclamation naming May 16 as “Bill Cosby Day” in recognition of the work Cosby has done to support African-American communities.

Ummm, WHY does this dude get his own day? DC Mayors, they usually do something off the wall from time to time. Still, talk is talk. When I see Cosby go into the hood and knock on the D-boys doors and say, “You gotta leave Theo and take Alvin with you.” Then I’ll nod my head to what this guy has to say.

I can handle critique. I can handle finger-pointing. If I fucked up, I’d be the first to tell you, ‘Hey I fucked up. I’ll get it right next time. But unless you are contributing to the fullest potential of your abilities towards making situations better, then you cannot be helping. Cosby is Monday Night quarterbacking with no solutions. Just being the angry stepdaddy sitting on his money-bin. And I went to the issue of his money because yes he has a lot of it.

I mean, hey he has good intentions, fantastic. But how about trying to get people to return to the city first by producing income-furnishing jobs. And straightening-up the ‘jects some. (I said some because let’s be for real, it’ll take baby steps). What people don’t need after going through so much (inadequate help, a huge period of lawlessness, losing everything or what little that they had, government shunning, and separation from friends and family and all of the things that they recognize) is a lot of chastizing. How does Cosby get into these events? I mean Huxtable needs another sitcom so that he’ll have something better to do with his time. From post chronicle:

At a rally attended by Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on Saturday, comedian and actor Bill Cosby urged residents of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans, Louisiana, to “cleanse” themselves from the city’s history of crime, violence, drugs and teen pregnancies.

Cosby has come under fire by the civil-rights establishment for comments made across the U.S., in which he’s told young blacks to turn away from influences in rap music, stop violence and underage sex, and focus more on education and morality.

Cosby told the crowd, “It’s painful, but we can’t cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound. Ladies and gentlemen, you had the highest murder rate, unto each other. You were dealing drugs to each other. You were impregnating our 13-, 12-, 11-year-old children. What kind of a village is that?”

At the rally in N.O. — a city devastated by Hurricane Katrina last August — Cosby told 2,000 people in front of the Convention Center of his desire for the city’s society to have an “extreme make-over.”

As is usual, Cosby is being slammed by most civil-rights leaders and black pundits who claim his comments hurt “the cause.” They’ve attacked his speeches as being insensitive and wrong.

“They don’t like it when [Cosby] puts the blame on pathological behavior in the black community, rather than the shop-worn tactic of blaming “whitey” for the problems in black neighborhoods,” claims Mike Baker, a political analyst.

“The crowd and the speakers expected the usual ‘George Bush’ bashing and racism allegations. Cosby gave them a mirror and they didn’t like what they saw.”

According to the latest crime statistics for the embattled city, violent crime is on the rise once again. Some can be attributed to illegal aliens coming to New Orleans for jobs or outsiders looking to exploit the still chaotic environment, but much of the crime is occurring within the black community.

While people such as Rev. Jesse Jackson have voiced concerns over Cosby’s speeches, in the past Jackson himself has chastised African-Americans in poor neighborhoods for what came to be known as “black-on-black crime.”

I do understand that these issues are prevalent and need to be addressed and the mirror is in definite need. But I do not believe New Orleans is the venue for the Pudding Man to address them. These are issues that are national if not global.