Donny

Ladies and gentlemen, I really have to ask you to seriously consider what you?ve heard, and now this is the end of the evening so to speak. I heard a prize fight manager say to his fellow who was losing badly, ?David, listen to me. It?s not what?s he?s doing to you. It?s what you?re not doing. (laughter).

Ladies and gentlemen, these people set, they opened the doors, they gave us the right, and today, ladies and gentlemen, in our cities and public schools we have fifty percent drop out. In our own neighborhood, we have men in prison. 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 holding 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 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 had one and where you got it from. Parents don?t know that today.

I?m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? (clapping) Where were you when he was twelve? (clapping) Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don?t know he had a pistol? (clapping) And where is his father, and why don?t you know where he is? And why doesn?t the father show up to talk to this boy?

The church is only open on Sunday. And you can?t keep asking Jesus to ask doing things for you (clapping). You can?t keep asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you (clapping and laughing). God was there when they won all those cases. 50 in a row. That?s where God was because these people were doing something. And God said, ?I?m going to find a way.? I wasn?t there when God said it? I?m making this up (laughter). But it sounds like what God would do (laughter).

We cannot blame white people. White people (clapping) .. white people don?t live over there. They close up the shop early. The Korean ones still don?t know us as well?they stay open 24 hours (laughter).

I?m looking and I see a man named Kenneth Clark. He and his wife Mamie?Kenneth?s still alive. I have to apologize to him for these people because Kenneth said it straight. He said you have to strengthen yourselves?and we?ve got to have that black doll. And everybody said it. Julian Bond said it. Dick Gregory said it. All these lawyers said it. And you wouldn?t know that anybody had done a damned thing.

50 percent drop out rate, 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 them (clapping). All this child knows is ?gimme, gimme, gimme.? These people want to buy the friendship of a child?.and the child couldn?t care less. Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever we?ve done, we still fear our parents (clapping and laughter). And these people are not parenting. They?re buying things for the kid. $500 sneakers, for what? They won?t buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics. (clapping)

A\Kenneth Clark, somewhere in his home in upstate New York?just looking ahead. Thank God, he doesn?t know what?s going on, thank God. But these people, the ones up here in the balcony fought so hard. Looking at the incarcerated, these are not political criminals. These are people going around stealing Coca Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake! Then we all run out and are outraged, ?The cops shouldn?t have shot him? What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? (laughter and clapping). I wanted a piece of pound cake just as bad as anybody else (laughter) And I looked at it and I had no money. And something called parenting said if get caught with it you?re going to embarrass your mother. Not you?re going to get your butt kicked. No. You?re going to embarrass your mother. You?re going to embarrass your family.

If knock that girl up, you?re going to have to run away because it?s going to be too embarrassing for your family. In the old days, a girl getting pregnant 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. Ladies and gentlemen, listen to these people, they are showing you what?s wrong. People putting their clothes on backwards. ?isn?t that a sign of something going on wrong? (laughter)

Are you not paying attention, people with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn?t that a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up (laughter and clapping ). Isn?t it a sign of something when she?s got her dress all the way up to the crack?and got all kinds of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? (laughter). We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans, they don?t know a damned thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail. (When we give these kinds names to our children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning of those names. What?s the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up).

Brown Versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person?s problem. We?ve got to take the neighborhood back (clapping). We?ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It?s right around the corner. (laughter) It?s standing on the corner. It can?t speak English. It doesn?t want to speak English. I can?t even talk the way these people talk. ?Why you ain?t where you is go, ra,? I don?t know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk (laughter). Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it?s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can?t land a plane with ?why you ain?t?? You can?t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they?re moving ahead on this. Well, they know they?re not, they?re just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you?re just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.

Now look, I?m telling you. It?s not what they?re doing to us. It?s what we?re not doing. 50 percent drop out. Look, we?re raising our own ingrown immigrants. These people are fighting hard to be ignorant. There?s no English being spoken, and they?re walking and they?re angry. Oh God, they?re angry and they have pistols and they shoot and they do stupid things. And after they kill somebody, they don?t have a plan. Just murder somebody. Boom. Over what? A pizza? And then run to the poor cousin?s house. They sit there and the cousin says ?what are you doing here?? ?I just killed somebody, man.? ?What?? ?I just killed somebody, I?ve got to stay here.? ?No, you don?t.? ?Well, give me some money, I?ll go?? ?Where are you going?? ?North Carolina.? Everybody wanted to go to North Carolina. But the police know where you?re going because your cousin has a record.