[cripplecreek]

He really cares and has great ideas but his community can only shout him down, much to their detriment.

Agreed. One of the inner city pastors I've been working with says blacks need to drop the false revulsion toward "selling out". He says its OK for a black man to sell poison to his neighbors on a street corner and he's treated as a hero for doing so but a man who works to raise his family is treated like a pariah.

Its some really backward thinking. The reality is the family man lives a much better and usually longer life. That's not selling out, that's selling up.

[Netz]

If there were 100,000 Bill Cosby's versus 1 Al Sharpton and 1 Jesse Jackson and 1 Barack Obama, the AA community would be living MLK’s dream.

How can it be that there is status in being ignorant, stupid, violent and irresponsible? My apologist friends would, of course blame everything on the White man.

Everything seems to be outside of the Black man's control, everything. The first way to move ahead is for the AA community to face up to the problem as pointed out by Cosby.

This “blame the other” behavior is prevalent in Arab/Islamic culture as well. The reason that they are living in the 7th century is because of the white imperialists or Jews. Nothing is of their own doing.

Strange that as the Black man left the Church-GOSPEL AND THE BEDROCK OF FAITH and embraced Islam (which enslaved them and sold them to white traders starting in the 15th century onwards), they have gone downhill, especially since all the Great Society enactments of 1964.

Is there a solution? Liberals would say eradicating poverty and Federal programs. Cosby would say, first, take responsibility, take off the Rapper outfit, get a job and start supporting your family that you fathered.

The only one willing to organize countermeasures is another corrupt fat cat named Rev. Farakahn who wants to enslave them into Islam. So where can they turn?

Maybe Cosby can get the ball rolling?