Kamille Perkins
Honors Language and Composition
Bill Cosby Pound Cake Response
2/24/14

Bill Cosby’s Pound Cake gave me a sense of reassurance. I would feel as if I were the only other African American that felt the same way Bill Cosby does. People would call me “snooty” or tell me that I think I’m better than them for having this opinion. In actuality, people need to open their eyes and realize that there are too many black people settling to be a statistic. Although Bill Cosby exaggerated a little, he was dead on in pointing out that 50% of us are dropping out, and the rest in jail. There are too many of us settling with this statistic rather than just over coming it. We need to wake up and rise up to the greater people we can be. I was able to relate emotionally when Bill Cosby gave the example of the boy who stole pound cake and a bottle of coke. This spoke to me because that young boy was shot and killed over some cake and coke. That is not to say that the cops are completely wrong because although I feel as though they did not have to shoot him, he should not have been stealing. Whether it is cake and coke or a cell phone, black people have tendencies to steal because it is easier than getting up in the morning, going to school or work, and making a living for themselves. This is Bill Cosby’s point. We as black people already have more to prove because many people expect us to fail or become little in life. More of us need to have the mindset of