"What he is doing is telling the truth, and if it angers people then maybe that's because he's speaking the truth," writes "A Single Working Black Parent" in a Black Entertainment Television message-board forum [via Lucianne] re Bill Cosby's call for black citizens to stand up and assume responsibility for their children's moral and intellectual education:
My daughter & I have had much long suffering, but through the struggle we survived and without the help of a "Black Man." It's so unfortunate there are so many of our children today who don't know their daddy. My daughter taught me that DNA means "Dad Not Available" . . . What he is doing is telling the truth, and if it angers people then maybe that's because he's speaking the truth. Unthaw from the hatred of the "White Man," he's just watching us annihilate ourselves.
La Shawn Barber, meanwhile, steps back for a wide-angle view of the unintended consequences of -- What was it, thirty years' worth? -- of what Bill Clinton used to call "Welfare as we know it." Myron Magnet called it The Dream and the Nightmare:
It's sad to see so many lives wasted by the liberal ideology of blame, grievances and victimhood.
[Jesse Jackson's] chosen as a vocation the lucrative profession of racial grievances. Plenty of people want to hear it, need to hear it. Many of you have read my story, A Sobering Truth. One thing getting sober taught me was that I had to look myself in the mirror and face responsibility for what I'd done to myself and others. I could've wallowed and blamed a long list of people for my condition. I could've used them as excuses to continue living a corrupted life. Looking at that reflection was painful but very liberating.
Cosby's words are painful to hear but should be just as liberating for people caught in the blame-racism trap. My hope is that people leave the self-pity behind and strive to live life to their fullest potential, especially people living in a country like the United States.
From our point of view, two things:
1. We fell big time for Cosby's wit and wisdom and esprit in our youth last millennium when he starred opposite Robert Culp (who?) in a stylish TV spoof called "I Spy." Never got into his later shows, as we don't do sit coms.
2. Before the internet and blogging, we never knew any conservative black voices other than Thomas Sowell, introduced to us years ago by Goomp, who named his now dearly-departed black-with-white pussycat Tom in honor of this oft-quoted pundit. We just did a Google search and found this eloquent essay by Tom, Tom, Tom (Goomp's pet name for his beloved cat) from last May:
Bill Cosby has provided a lot of laughs for millions of Americans over the years, but black "leaders" were not laughing after he lashed out at those black parents who buy their children expensive sneakers instead of something educational. He also denounced both those children and those adults in the black community who refuse to speak the king's English.
We haven't been paying much attention to the Coz for decades, but now we're thinking he may be really onto something. Maybe something much bigger than the Terminator, who lost us the other day when he came out for terminating all things bright and beautiful.
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