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your personal relationship to hip-hop is irrelevant to the issue here. Cosby is talking about the effect of these kinds of ignorant cultural products and practices on the *black* community, not America as a whole.
The fact that many white people listen to hip-hop these days does not somehow magically endow them with any special insight into black problems and issues. Your predecessors had the same relationship to blues, jazz, rock and roll, etc,--but their interest in the music/culture didn't suddenly cause them to be insightful about black people's issues. This generation is no different. Do you know what would happen if I, as a black person, came to a conference on Jewish cultural issues, for example, and tried to lecture Jews on how they should view themselves? Or tried to weigh in on a controversial debate within the Jewish community?
Do you know what the reaction would be if I said, "Gee guys, I grew up in a Jewish neghborhood, and I really identify with many aspects of Jewish culture, therefore I'm going to weigh in on your discussion."? I would be told to STFU, *quick fast*. The same would be true if I tried to lecture Puerto Ricans, Armenians, Koreans, etc, in a similar manner...and that is the way it should be, as far as I am concerned.
Whether you realize it or not, your attitude is disrespectful, and reeks of a double-standard.
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