This Is How We Lost to the White Man

The audacity of Bill Cosby's black conservatism

From Birmingham to Cleveland and Baltimore, at churches and colleges, Cosby has been telling thousands of black Americans that racism in America is omnipresent but that it can't be an excuse to stop striving. As Cosby sees it, the antidote to racism is not rallies, protests, or pleas, but strong families and communities. Instead of focusing on some abstract notion of equality, he argues, blacks need to cleanse their culture, embrace personal ... Full Story »

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Dwight Rousu
3.7
by Dwight Rousu - Oct. 1, 2008

The article tours through the African-American psyche and both the resonance and dissonance with the Cosby call outs. An interesting tour; not sure what destination I might have reached.

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