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   From: bugsysegal@worldnet.att.net   
      
   On Sat, 3 Jul 2004 11:40:40 -0700, Sir Lancelott wrote:   
      
   > "Dr. Linus Bahadur Goldfarb"  wrote in message   
   > news:5qude0lbnf156b7n7n9s4v1rqod97c8e56@4ax.com...   
   >> 3 cheers for the Cos, Part II   
   >>   
   >>   
   >> Walter Williams   
   >>   
   >> Bill Cosby's May 17 remarks at a Washington, D.C., gathering   
   >> commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education   
   >> Supreme Court decision continues to draw controversy and debate.   
   >> That's good. Some of the debate highlights a point made by my   
   >> colleague Dr. Thomas Sowell:   
   >>   
   >> Bill Cosby and the black "leadership" represent two long-standing   
   >> differences about how to deal with the problems of the black   
   >> community. The "leaders" are concerned with protecting the image of   
   >> blacks, while Cosby is trying to protect the future of blacks,   
   >> especially those of the younger generation.   
   >>   
   >> Let's compare and contrast the tenor of Cosby's comments with an   
   >> example of one made by a black "leader."  You decide which class of   
   >> comments is more helpful to the black community.   
   >>   
   >> Cosby: "... with names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of   
   >> that crap, and all of them are in jail.  Brown v. the Board of   
   >> Education is no longer the white person's problem. We have got to take   
   >> the neighborhood back. We have to go in there - forget about telling   
   >> your child to go into the Peace Corps - it is right around the corner.   
   >> They are standing on the corner, and they can't speak English."   
   >>   
   >> And on teen sex, Cosby said: "Hey, you have a baby when you are 12;   
   >> your baby turns 13 and has a baby. How old are you? Huh? Grandmother!   
   >> By the time you are 12, you can have sex with your grandmother, you   
   >> keep those numbers coming. I'm just predicting."   
   >>   
   >> Cosby went on to say: "What is it - young girls getting after a girl   
   >> who wants to remain a virgin? Who are these sick black people, and   
   >> where do they come from, and why haven't they been parented to shut   
   >> up? This is a sickness, ladies and gentlemen."   
   >>   
   >> Contrast the gist of these remarks to those of Julian Bond, NAACP   
   >> chairman, to the group's 94th annual convention: Republicans appeal   
   >> "to the dark underside of American culture, to the minority of   
   >> Americans who reject democracy and equality." Bond added, "They preach   
   >> racial neutrality and practice racial division ... their idea of   
   >> reparations is to give war criminal Jefferson Davis a pardon."   
   >>   
   >> Cosby's comments, as well as others he made, show that he's willing to   
   >> address the pressing problems of the black community, as opposed to   
   >> Bond's grandstanding on the behalf of the Democratic Party. Black   
   >> people will accomplish much more by focusing on the issues of crime,   
   >> illegitimacy, poor parenting and slovenly behavior than worrying about   
   >> whom the Republican Party is appealing to and racial discrimination.   
   >>   
   >> It's really a matter of diagnosis. In medicine, the key to effective   
   >> treatment is correct diagnosis. If one presents to a physician with   
   >> chronic fatigue, and the physician incorrectly diagnoses it as caused   
   >> by the patient's toenail fungus, he can treat the toenail fungus   
   >> untilkingdom come and do nothing for the chronic fatigue.  Similarly,   
   >> if black politicians and civil-rights groups diagnose black   
   >> illegitimacy, crime and anti-intellectualism as caused by racial   
   >> discrimination or the Republican Party, they can spend all the   
   >> resources they please fighting discrimination and the Republican Party   
   >> and do nothing for illegitimacy, crime and   
   >> anti-intellectualism-induced poor academic performance.   
   >>   
   >> As a medical doctor would be obliged to prove the causal connection   
   >> between chronic fatigue and toenail fungus - or face malpractice   
   >> charges - black politicians and civil-rights organizations should be   
   >> obliged to prove the causal connection between illegitimacy, crime and   
   >> anti-intellectualism, on the one hand, and racial discrimination and   
   >> the Republican Party on the other. I think the Cos has the more   
   >> accurate diagnosis, and what we have to come up with is the effective   
   >> treatment regimen.   
   >>   
   >> http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38865   
   >   
   > You only agree with Cosby because you hate Blacks.   
   > Cosby is wrong.   
   > If Cosby didn't want attention for his new tv show, he wouldn't be so   
   > controversial.   
   > If Cosby gave a shit about his own people he'd be more subtle and he's help   
   > them without critisizm.   
      
   What has Bill Cosby said you diagree with?   
      
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