Gentlemen in Europe less than 200 years ago just knew that a good horse or dog had more sense and value than a woman. Of course, they had doctors who refused to wash their hands, or use alcohol on their instruments. And men commonly believed the cure for a venereal disease was a virgin. At that time, it was hard to find a virgin past puberty on the street, and even some places virgins not even yet at puberty. Even the upper class had to guard their virgins. Some states, when cars first came out, passed a law that said in certain places, if a woman was driving, a man had to run in front of the vehicle, with a lantern, warning people that a woman driver was coming.

Yep, things have changed since 1955. I got my first "real" job in 1957. The first job that produced a paycheck complete with tax deduction. It was a job with a major company in my hometown and had a starting pay of %1.57 an hour. I married in 1958 and paid $45.00 a month rent for my first apartment.

JCE! You forgot an important one! Women will never be able to do the same things as men. They just don't have enough brains.

The Cosby show was about what many already knew. A family is alltogether difference than a man and woman begetting "kids" - they must be kids they are allowed to act like goats, butting into everyone and everything, butting is bullying. Green, Alien from Outter Space, black, white protestant, catholic, muslin or any religion it is not race, creed or relition that makes us act writh or wrong - If all citizens using common sense and truly being parents as the Cosby's did for a generation or two would turn this nation around. Lack of responsibility for self, each other and your own children and in fact not showing deep abiding love as the Cosby's did is what is lacking and the root of many if not all of the problems today.
Bill Cosby has forgotten more good sense and most adults today ever hoped to possess.

People have seen it all along, just refused to take action. That just doesn't seem to change, as my last two posts show.

Comments made in the year 1955!

I'll tell you one thing, if things keep going the way they are, it's going to be impossible to buy a week's groceries for $10.00.

Have you seen the new cars coming out next year? It won't be long before $1, 000.00 will only buy a used one.

If cigarettes keep going up in price, I'm going to quit. 20 cents a pack is ridiculous.

Did you hear the post office is thinking about charging 7 cents just to mail a letter

If they raise the minimum wage to $1.00, nobody will be able to hire outside help at the store.

When I first started driving, who would have thought gas would someday cost 25 cents a gallon. Guess we'd be better off leaving the car in the garage.

I'm afraid to send my kids to the movies any more Ever since they let Clark Gable get by with saying DAMN in GONE WITH THE WIND, it seems every new movie has either HELL or DAMN in it.

I read the other day where some scientist thinks it's possible to put a man on the moon by the end of the century. They even have some fellows they call astronauts preparing for it down in Texas .

Did you see where some baseball player just signed a contract for $50,000 a year just to play ball? It wouldn't surprise me if someday they'll be making more than the President.

I never thought I'd see the day all our kitchen appliances would be electric. They are even making electric typewriters now.

It's too bad things are so tough nowadays. I see where a few married women are having to work to make ends meet.

It won't be long before young couples are going to have to hire someone to watch their kids so they can both work.

I'm afraid the Volkswagen car is going to open the door to a whole lot of foreign business.

Thank goodness I won't live to see the day when the Government takes half our income in taxes. I sometimes wonder if we are electing the best people to government.

The drive-in restaurant is convenient in nice weather, but I seriously doubt they will ever catch on.

There is no sense going on short trips anymore for a weekend, it costs nearly $2.00 a night to stay in a hotel.

No one can afford to be sick anymore, at $15.00 a day in the hospital, it's too rich for my blood.'

If they think I'll pay 30 cents for a hair cut, forget it.'

I never thought you were totally blind, just very selective. It isn't THE government. It is certain special interests, and certain government officials that they control, and certain people, all of whom are making a profit, having jobs, and otherwise prostituting themselves for a buck. There are politicians and people who see the truth, speak out with it, and offer solutions. But the vast majority of the people are stuck on stupid. They refuse to cooperate with each other, and just enjoy arguing, b*tching and finger pointing at the groups they have grown accustomed to hating and blaming everything on.

My black father worked two full time jobs to take care of our family of four children so that my mother could stay home with us, AND he provided for our health care both medical and dental. We didn't see much of him but we knew he was the "figure" at the top, discipline was primiarly my mother's job. Welfare and the creeping size of governemnt has destroyed first the black family and then on to the rest of the various family commuities - white, hispanic, etc. Cosby is constantly preaching self-reliance, education, get rid of thug-dom. Thank Goodness there is a well-known black person preaching such values because most of our Black politicians - starting at the top - are trying to grow the government and grow the dependency on government.

JCE, I have no problem with Cosby, I do have a problem with the "thug" image that is offered to our young! And the white children that try to imitate that image! Cosby has told blacks to stand on their own two feet! And quit excusing their behavior with "racism"! Before welfare there wasn't any "thug" generation----Blacks and whites worked and stood on their own----AND took care of their familys!! Now the government tells the young mothers: "you don't need a husband before you start having babies" "the government will give you more money for each baby you can produce!" Now the government has discovered what they created, and wants the absentee fathers to pay child support! It was their policys that contributed to this destruction of black familys! The same thing is beginning to happen to young white familys!

I have known Bill Cosby since 1962. We went to New York together for the summer and although he went home. it was just for a short time. I never went back home. He is one of the great storytellers of all time. Bill taught me that he was not a black comedian; he was a comedian. I was so moved to see him step forward and talk about children and education, and stir up a debate about the need to respect yourself and take responsibility for your life. He was/is doing it in honor of his lost son, who would have been a great educator. Bill has always felt that way and has proved it in many ways besides The Huxtables. In his first TV show, I-Spy, he played a pro tennis player/spy at a time when black tennis players were rare as hensteeth. He helped create and appeared on Electric Company (an offshoot of Sesame Street) and turned Fat Albert into a great childrens' show. His basic message has always been that black or white, what matters is that we are people whose life experiences have more in common than not. He always combined humanity with respect. He gave black people a reason to be proud and to feel better about themselves. He helped Madison Avenue to feel better about using black actors in their TV advertising, which was another way of paving the way to more acceptance. He also did Jello commercials for years. He is a great human being as well as a great talent.

If Cosby was white, there would be a lot less problem with him. The irony, is Cosby is a real American, with real, solid, conservative family values, the kind the country is losing when they are needed more than ever. Cosby is an American hero, who lives what he says.