Cosby, engage blacks to marry

Atlanta Journal Constitution ^ | November 13, 2003 | Cynthia Tucker

[cyborg]

Why should they be any different than white politicians or anyone else? Politicians in general are selfish and care only about themselves, or their wallets rather. I'm not surprised at their behvavior at all.

[Teacher317]

"Well, this is a Cynthia Tucker column and she is a Democrat."
Let me paraphrase Ed Koch and say she must be a democrat with sanity.

ROFL! Actually, I had to re-read the author's name 3 times, and I'm still not sure I believe it. If she did actually pen this, then good on her... there's hope for everybody... but her usual stuff is typically over-the-top rantings with blatantly racist overtones.

[heye2monn]

I salute Tucker for pushing marriage and fatherhood, but not her die-hard support for gay marriage. The gay marriage movement in northern Europe, and in parts of this country has been used an excuse to justify what many adolescents (of any age) really want to do: shack up and bear children out of wedlock. If the gays can do it, the argument goes, why can't we?

The Democrats will never get the "moral vote" they claim to want because they so dearly love gays.

[Quix]

Depends.

For many, hopefully, yes.

But people are amazing creatures of habit unless and until a persuasive or huge, hard, sharp jolt

KNOCKS them out of their ruts.

[mamalujo]

— a certain cultural shift that is harder to articulate: marriage has simply become devalued.

Just watch any Oprah show and you will see this

[demnomo]

Yeah, and Oprah won't marry her longtime live-in boy friend. Some critics (and persons who know or have worked with her) claim that Oprah is afraid that her boyfriend will take half of her money. I guess money may be more important to Oprah than marriage.

Oprah is a lousey role model in this respect.

[mamalujo]

how about just
Oprah is lousy?

[demnomo]

Agreed.

I was never a big fan of her "victimology" shows and her admiration of that phoney Dr. Phil.

[mamalujo]

dr pill sucks, have a geat day

[LibertarianInExile]

"Like so many others, I support Cosby's crusade."

And like lots of other liberals who 'espouse' conservative talk, I don't do anything other than support it. I wouldn't vote for it. I don't speak about it other than in general terms. I couldn't begin to imagine what it would be like to encourage personal responsibility in any other way.

Cynthia Tucker is a communist bitch. Anything she says now about supporting Cosby is really about CYA, not about backing him up.

[Bon mots]

There will need to be some changes made.
The incentive for welfare mothers to marry is non-existant.
The welfare system encourages single motherhood and fatherless homes.

Not only that, divorce courts which exclusively punish men in the vast majority of divorce cases - both personally and financially - act as a serious disincentive to sane men to marry.
After all, a modern marriage contract is a one-sided document which can be brought into a court room to ruin the life of a man.
He will lose custody of his children to a woman - which is detrimental to children. Children raised by single fathers fare much better than those raised by single mothers.
He will lose much of his income. Regardless of blame, men are by and large the largest donors of 'alimony' and child support, much of which goes to financing the ex-wife's lifestyle.
The man is stripped of his assets.

This in a country where women want to be treated as 'equals'.
I guess they want to be equal right up until the day of their divorce.

NoMarriage.com

[Chewbacca]

Why marry if the sistas are giving it up for free?

[the invisib1e hand]

black America

hey, what happened? when did they say it was OK to use the word "black" again?

[beezdotcom]

Look, I hope you guys are right - maybe she is finally "getting it"...but she says snough other screwy things that it makes me wonder.