>This subject isn't about the "intent", although you nor I
>know what either Sowell or McWhorter intends in regards to
>the advancement of black people (all you're saying is what
>you THINK they intend). The question is whether these
>things were known before Cosby said something about them,
>and no doubt they were.
>
>Just because someone actually gives a bunch of money to
>charity and the like, while noble, does not all of a sudden
>make them a credible authority to fixing a problem within
>that sphere. Cosby could give a billion dollars to
>education programs, but that doesn't mean he's more credible
>than actual educators that have been working with the
>system; one of them, I might add, that has been for a span
>of 5 different decades.
>
>So "intent" is irrelevant. Intent does not necessarily
>produce results. If that was the case, communism would
>actually work. Nor do you know what they truly intend.

I was talking about context, I was talking about the actions AND words of the men being discussed - intent was only a part of it and you missed the boat there as well.

I was discussing how one man's actions reveal him to be someone who offers solutions along with criticism.

While others only offer criticism and don't act at all with respect to trying to advance things.

You've inadvertantly come back to my original statement - What have Sowell & McWhorter done that should make me believe that they speak in the same CONTEXT as Cosby?

Zero.

Cosby's actions reveal the end game of his intentions.

McWhorter & Sowell's actions don't.

E.g. You can't lump them in the same boat as they're really saying different things when you look at the sum total of their words and actions.



>And you, of all people, actually commenting on someone
>else's ego? Ha. You got a nerve.

Completely missed the point (again) -

Your posts aren't designed to offer anything constructive, engage anyone in intellectual debate or offer anything of value -their sole purpose is to inflate a fragile ego by claiming to be different.

Big difference between a poster who is often pompous but definitely informative and whose posts are designed around value.


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