Bill Cosby Strikes Again?
This isn’t new to us; we have heard Bill Cosby call out the Black community before. He’s gone so far as saying Black children who cannot read and write “are going nowhere”. He has a message for Black men to “stop beating up your women” and criticizes the culture for “babies [who] are wearing $40 sneakers while their mothers are feeding them Oodles of Noodles”.
There is some speculation as to whether Bill Cosby wrote this comment in response to a Wall Street Journal article last month …what do you think?
Rev. Wright epitomizes the thoughts and actions that have prevented and continue to prevent black America from moving ahead and achieving their potential as a people. He suggests that this United States of America made up of sons and daughters of immigrants (I’m talking of the millions of 1st, 2nd, 3rd generation immigrants in this country) of every race, creed, color and religion each and everyone of them who had nothing to do with slavery, some how owe something to a group of people who have never been slaves? Its amazing. It seems everyone is to blame for the shambles black society is in with its violence, drugs, high school drop out rates, misogyny, and a host of other real and virulent problems, except for the very people who engage in such behavior. Enough. As a society, culture or people, they should look within themselves and fix their problems. When did this man become the spokesman for the ‘black church’? And of course his church is different, but that doesn’t mean his message and philosophy is acceptable, or productive or non-offensive or not-racist or indicative or our greater cultural behaviors, values and norms Americans. And yes, the link between this man and Obama really does matter. At a very minimum, it provides insight into the political and philosophical strain that Obama adheres to.
Comment by - April 28, 2008 at 1:57 pm
You can find the original WSJ article here.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
dat boy Cosby is getting uppity! don’t he know he sposed to talk like all the other boys? Who said he could have an opinion?
Its amazing that as brilliantly concise as Cosby is, he never gains any traction in the black community, yet degenerates like Sharpton only have to issue half coherent rants to get a whole neighborhood to riot.
Yeah trn, but doesn’t part of you long for the day when Cosby was still funny? Or maybe that was Eddie Murphy doing Cosby that was funny - I can’t remember
After a long talk with one of Bill Cosby’s advisers and spokesman. This comment came from a rebulican pundit — Bill Cosby stated he will not comment until after this election.
uh…. yeah right. Too bad Cosby’s recent comments are completely in line with views he has expressed in the past. Nice try.
if this was the article that brought down the site, it was worth it.