[neverdem]

Because Cosby is wealthy, telling it like it is, is evidence of class warfare. Go figure.

[byset]

Why should Bill Cosby's comments being characterized as "attacks on the poor?" Mr. Cosby probably cares a lot more about the poor than Prof. Michael Eric Dyson of the University of Pennsylvania. He at least sees that they have the ability to succeed if they make the right choices.

Dyson evidently thinks that anytime the plight of the underclass is not blamed on the successful, or really anyone and everyone else, it is some kind of betrayal. His mistake is that he thinks this attitude makes him a champion of the poor.

[Riverman94610]

YAWN,here we go again-two very well to do black media superstars rhetorically masturbate to the joy of all liberal AND conservative intellectuals.
BETCHA they never actually GO to the hood they pontificate about so much!
But I do.Every day.And the Boyz and the Girlz in the hood could give a flying fart about what EITHER Cosby or Dyson say about their situation.Ditto with their parents.They are NOT going to go back to the old fashioned values.They are NOT going to stop calling each other the N,MF and B words.They are NOT going to turn off Ludacris and Kellis and listen to Brahms or Ella Fitzgerald.They are NOT going to go steady,get married and have three children who are the paragons of genteel manners.Thats just NOT reality.
Don't get me wrong.Most of these kids are VERY likeable.They are clever,witty and full of life.Contrary to what a lot of people think,they are NOT anti-white.Its been ages since I have been called a honky or white MF.They are very durable and adaptable.Some of them will break free of the madness of ghetto life and "come up"the right way.Yet their success will have everything to do with that special teacher or mentor or the rare parent or relative that has their back.
I think both liberals and conservatives are barking up the wrong trees.The liberals think that everyone in the hood are poor,oppressed and waiting for their enlightened souls to show them the way out through the usual government give a way programs.Way too many conservatives seem to think that young black and Latinos,especially the boys,are this great Menace to Society out to get "whitey".
Neither portrayal is accurate.But people love the great debate on these cultural issues.Problem is that NOTHING ever really changes.

[solitas]

It was not so long ago, however, that black actors who could find work at all were largely limited to playing criminals, servants and simpletons, roles that confirmed the doctrine of black inferiority.

Wow. No axes to grind here…

[hinckley buzzard]

Because Cosby is wealthy, telling it like it is, is evidence of class warfare

As opposed to Michael Eric Dyson, an affirmative action hothouse mutant orchid getting rich off Whitey's guilty conscience, who rises above that sort of thing.

At least Cosby has talent and earned his keep in the open market.