Bill Cosby: Grand Theft Auto is a prison prep course |
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The Grand Theft Auto franchise is subject to social criticism yet again.
In a prison prep course in Mississippi, comedian and activist Bill
Cosby likened the game to an entrance exam for getting into prison:Cost your mother $250 to buy that for you so you can practice your entrance exam (to prison).
GamePolitics reports that Cosby was urging the local African-American community to take an active role in bettering their neighborhood. His remarks were filmed for an upcoming documentary. Also among his comments:
The drug dealer is not in your culture, nor is the prostitute, nor is the glorified pimp if you teach black pride. They have no pride. They donÂ’t know their culture.
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communist
for those whos minds are easily manipulated then this really is if you remember a headliner when a 16 year old called a cab and put a gun in the back of the drivers head when questioned he said he wanted to reinact a scene from gta
Now i for one love the game but i know where hes coming from
I met bill cosby once hes a very wise guy and hes nice to he took me and my fam out to lunch once because my uncle knew him.
Communities being bettered and pride being taught regardless of race?
He couldn't' be more wrong. Grand Theft Auto does not influence children to be criminals in any way. The poverty a child may grow up with and how he is raised by his parents are 90% the influences that a child will take in life.
Since 2001 when the first 3d Grand Theft Auto crime rate has dropped.
I was born in the hood.
my dad wasnt there and im not holdin up cabs.Some of the thingsthey are doig is because they got ideas from somewhere ive been in a gang for 4 years before i got out no one did stuff like what i saw after gta 2 came out. now i like gta but i think they should add more age restrictions because it easy to influence younger minds.
he's still alive? i thought he died two years ago or something.
It's not the game's fault. This is the exact same discussion as do guns kill people or people kill people? The parents and the environment the child was brought up in are 95% of the reason.
There was something wrong with his upstairs to begin with. All that the game did was give him a nudge in the right direction. He also could have gotten this very same nudge from a violent movie or news story on tv, or if he had a bad friend that was into this stuff could also have influenced. There are countless things that would make him do the exact same sooner or later because these things are just the cause, they are not the underlying reason.
I respect Mr. Cosby, but he is absolutely wrong about this. All he is doing is giving in to the propaganda about video game violence. Politicians, they need something to complain about otherwise they don't get votes. Since the abortion and the gun laws fad died down a little they needed something else to blame and now video games were the sacrificial goat since they have the most influence going around right now.
Couldnt have said it better myself
I agree, but i would take it one step further. Its not only young minds that are easy to influence - there are plenty of "adults" that are easy to influence too.
GTA is a fun game, it just takes a few bad eggs to ruin the fun for everyone else...
http://gwcommonwealth.com/articles/2008/11/21/news/top_stories/11212008news01.txt
With all else that he's said, I don't think he was targetting games or railing against them specificially. Perhaps the message was blurred or perhaps he chose his words incorrectly, but the point of his speech was to influence the youth to be a positive force in their neighborhoods.
Anybody with a sense of logic or reason in their brains has to agree that Grand Theft Auto is basically mimicry of the illegal activities that young gang members and thugs do regardless of race or creed.
Please understand the context in the example he said before you call him wrong...
because he was right in what he said, and how he said it.
Jello!
The way I see it - it wasn't that bad of a comment. Honestly, do the shiz you do in GTA and yeah you're off to prison
Bill Cosby rawks btw
i live in Mississippi
0_o
I really gotta start reading the full story before commenting like an idiot don't I.
in some communities, there's a good possibility that Niko Bellic is one of the few male influences in the home.
is in the pudding
Apparently Cliff Huxtable is unhappy about GTA IV.