Bill Cosby’s message airs “dirty laundry”

In this morning’s Washington Times, Brian Debose writes about the latest reaction to Bill Cosby’s new book “Come on People”;

Civil rights activists and scholars are softening their criticism of Bill Cosby’s message to black Americans to stop blaming racism for their problems and engage in more personal responsibility.

While black leaders still differ on the role institutional racism plays in the social ills of blacks, Mr. Cosby’s new book “Come On, People” is not receiving the same backlash its author did when he first publicly spoke out on the matter in 2004.

Cosby’s message is that individual Black Americans must take responsibility for their individual behavior instead of blaming racism. Although “Black leaders” claim to agree, the problem is that Cosby’s saying it in public.

[Harvard professor Alvin] Poussaint agreed, saying that criticizing [Barack Obama] and Mr. Cosby for “airing our dirty laundry in public” in the presence of whites is unwarranted and stymies dialogue and progress.

“If we are going to communicate and share information, we have to share. Bill is [saying] that we cannot worry about white people. We have to take these things on ourselves,” he said.

See, that’s what I don’t understand. Whites are blamed for the institutional racism, yet we can’t sit and discuss solutions to the problem? That’s how the problem got to this point – the race pimps tell White America to just hand them the money and they’ll fix the problem. But problem doesn’t get fixed because the race pimps prefer the government handouts to actual solutions. Even when “reparations” are being discussed, the race pimps tell the Black community that the money from any reparations would be more effective if it was funneled into the race pimps’ organizations for the general community.

On the subject of dirty laundry, Bill Cosby had the perfect answer;

“Let me tell you something. Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it’s cursing and calling each other [the n-word] as they’re walking up and down the street. They think they’re hip. They can’t read. They can’t write. They’re laughing and giggling, and they’re going nowhere.”

But Al Sharpton doesn’t want white America to do anything but hand over more cash;

But some civil rights activists charged that blaming blacks gives ammunition to conservatives and draws attention away from prejudice in the criminal justice and education systems.

For example, Mr. Sharpton said this week that simply telling people to be “well-behaved and well-mannered” while inequality in the schools and courts continues is “not in [blacks’] best interests.”

Let me say this, Mr. Sharpton, I’m one conservative who doesn’t need ammunition – I only want a solution and by keeping me out of the discussion, you’re getting further away from a solution. But then, that’s in your best interests, isn’t it? 

Category: Society