"Cosby's helping as are some other public figures, and of course Larry Elder is king there. More in the black communities need to look up to the Rice's, Williams', Sowell's, Watts', etc. and quit looking to that bottom-of-the-humanity-barrel hip-hop culture crap."
I agree and wish for the same. But I won't place any bets on it.
Speaking of the hip hop culture, what concern does America have to require that new immigrants learn to speak English? Especially when there are millions of decendants of multiple generations right here in America that have been here for hundreds of years that has not bothered, nor have they been required, to learn to speak English. Rather, the rejection of English is projected in pop culture as "cool."
There is no major ethnicity living within the US now whereby the majority of people do not speak at least enough English to get by in an English speaking country. Sure, you can find niches in certain predominantly ethnic communities, but by-and-large everyone speaks English.
Except for hispanics/Mexicans that is. I can't even begin to tell you how in our area, N. VA, there are areas where you can go into a McD's, BK's, or any one of many other QSRs and find nary anyone speaking English, in areas with large Mexican populations but by no stretch purelly Mexican and largely traditional American.
The hip-hop culture is a sub culture that specializes in unintelligble gibberish that is extremely limited in its contexts. I.e., one could pen a very intellectual book in Spanish. One cannot come even remotely close to doing the same in ebonics/hip-hop. The entire "language" is a regression in intellectuality and is very limited in its applications. Applications such as rape, killing, disrespecting others, etc. It's all about the darkest of human vices.
One can write a book on Physics in Spanish. One couldn't even write the intro in hip-hop lingo. e.g.