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That's a stupid retort...trying to dimish their statements based on a nonexistent standard of what you think someone should do or be doing.
This is precisely the reason why we are in the situations that Cosby was talking about - Ignoring what's being said because you don't like who's saying it. This isn't something new, or something that was just went unlooked. This has been seen and documented for over three decades. But whomever actually stated the downturn of intellectualism and moral standing within the black community has been depicted as a sellout or a racist...and when by the time someone actually goes above the line to address the problem, like Cosby does, it's generally too late for the ones that are going through these things today.
Until someone with a celebrity profile starts yelling about it, nothing gets done, and things get worse. That's truly why Cosby is making these rants; everyone else is too afraid to do so or the ones that are saying it are being ignored.
Now, does that mean he's speaking for Sowell or McWhorter, or others that have stated the same thing (Williams, Moynihan, Thernstrom, Brown, etc)? No. But it does state that he is seeing some of the same things they see. And the problems are getting too noticeable and too great for people to just ignore based on flimsy excuses, like the one you gave. __________________________ My politics and sports blog .
"Are you saying there's no qualified black Democrats out there to be veep? I mean, he didn't even consider them. I mean 94% of the black population votes for the Democrat candidate every four years, and no black leaders were even demanding it! They weren't even demanding it.
So we're thinking, okay, who would be somebody that could really shake it up? And we came up with one man. We came up with a name, folks: Donovan McNabb. Kerry-McNabb. The only problem is neither of them could carry Philadelphia." - Rush Limbaugh
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