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Cosbyâs âBlack Guiltâ Trip
this is the "who-is-he-to-be-preaching-to-blacks" liberal spin. Incredible! The article uses just about every way possible to minimize or marginalize Cosbyâs perspective. excerpts:Ron Daniels makes a similar case in an article in the June 13 issue of The Final Call, the newspaper of Louis Farrakhanâs Nation of Islam. Daniels defends Cosbyâs words but notes other factors affecting the black community, such as the lack of economic, educational and political opportunities. Perhaps one of the most troublesome aspects of Cosbyâs comments to some in the black community is that he did not verbalize the significant problems that still plague African-Americans. Many believe Cosby is gravely out of touch, or just plain ignorant. The gap between Cosby and his detractors was widened even further by the opinion of many that Cosby is a snob. "He comes off like an elitist looking out the window of his Mercedes, dabbing Grey Poupon on a croissant and duck breast after a hard day on the links, lamenting the âNegro Problem,â" writes Jim Izrael in a June 1 editorial for the New York Beacon. Izrael, like others, wants to make clear the issues young blacks face today cannot be oversimplified and cannot be justified through divisive explanations like they are not doing enough. Khalil Tian Shahyd reminded people that Cosby is not a sociologist, but just a man â a man who happens to have truckloads of money and fame, thereby giving him not just a platform to dispense his opinion but also an audience eager to agree with his beliefs. "What surprised me was how Cosbyâs assertions were taken as fact without any shred of quantitative or qualitative analysis to back them up," Shahyd writes in the June 9 issue of the San Francisco Bay View. yes. how can he POSSIBLY make the assertion that education is important...with no data!!!?!!! How irresponsible he is to suggest that a teenaged girl having a child out of wedlock, with no financial support, is somehow going to limit her abilities to become a doctor or a lawyer. "Too many times we see celebrities such as Cosby taken as the intellectual leaders of our community." Not by me. Ja Rule and Snoop Dog are my intellectual icons. The notion that blacks have had such a large hand in creating their own situation is an idea conservatives have circulated for years â you canât help people who donât want to be helped, so why try? Cosbyâs sentiments instantly became fodder for the right. That conservative political doctrine has earned a popular black spokesman was the last straw for those who felt Cosby had gone too far. ahhh. so if the right says it, it must be wrong. gotcha. Some, like 13-year-old Kiah Thomas, even felt that Cosby should apologize for his comment that kids with names like "Shaniqua" and "Mohammed" are all in jail. not all. Posted by: PlanetDan 2004-07-08 |
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