Posted on 11/13/2004 2:11:49 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
I understand your point but a discussion is better than a dismissal.
Oh I know Cynthia Tucker well enough. But she has seemed persuadable in the past. And she makes very excellent points re: marriage. I, myself, have seen a lot of drama, trauma, and misery caused by divorce and the "free love" mentality.
Too bad it's not free at all, and the children pay the price. It's nice to see someone advocate for it, and never mind her stated support for gay "marriage" she is a good enough writer, in this piece at least, to keep her comments parenthetical.
This is actually a very good column.
Make excellence a 'black thing'
Maybe she is waking up to the reality that her Democrat Party vermin have kept American Blacks in economic slavery for the last fifty years. Good news is every day more good Black folk see the light. Bye, bye Dems!!! Black Congressional Caucus, what's that?
I still think that well connected conservatives could turn him into a flaming conservative.
I hope people are working on it.
Prayers for the cause!
Like so many others, I support Cosby's crusade... I'd just like to add one small item to his agenda: marriage. I'd like to hear him — in the plain and unadorned language for which he has become known — urging black men and women to get married.
Problem is, Tucker and the rest of the Left only support these values when stated by a liberal. When stated by a conservative, they're racist, bigotted, homophobic, etc.
I think Ms. Tucker sees the light when it affects blacks but she needs to work on extending that vision when looking at the big picture.
I believe she does see it but those Democrat roots are hard to pull up.
Politics aside, by raising the issue of family and education he'll have done a good measure, nature will do the rest and they'll naturally leave the Democratic Party.
I think the article is right.
Coz would make a great Sec of Ed.
Cosby has the support of Kweisi Mfume of the NAACP on marriage? Is that the same Kweisi Mfume that has 7 illigitimate kids? Bwahahahahahaahha.
Couldn't help but notice that irony either.....
Great article, and I'm really surprised to see it out of Cynthia Tucker's pen!
Check post #25.
Either Kwesi is showboating, or he is realizing that having children out of wedlock puts them at a grave disadvantage to children who are married (if they aren't taken care of).
Maybe.
It would be nice to see prominent blacks (including the Congressional Black Caucus) think of others beside themselves.
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