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Cosby's 'Black Guilt' Trip
By Danielle Worthy, Pacific News Service. Posted July 8, 2004.
Bill Cosby's latest volley of controversial remarks is stirring up fresh controversy in the nation's African-American media.
From the front page to the Op-Ed section, the African-American press is rehashing and dissecting actor and philanthropist Bill Cosby's recent tirades about blacks, with opinions ranging from full-on agreement to flat-out denial.
On July 1, Cosby hurled himself back into the hot seat b
again criticizing the black community, this time alongside Jesse Jackson at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition annual conference.
In response to the charge that he is airing African Americans' dirty lau
ndry, Cosby said, "Let me tell you something. Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every d
ay, it's cursing and calling each other n ' ' - as they're walking up and down the street."
But it was the comedian's first public outburst that really got everyone talking.
On May 17, 2004, at a NAACP celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregation in schools, 66-year-old Bill Cosby called the oversized clothing of many black youths "ridiculous" and attacked lower class blacks for not speaking proper English, not raising their kids properly by instilling corrupt and materialist-based values and for naming them silly names.
Following Cosby's lead, some commentators worry that blacks hav
e not done enough to improve their situation.
"I agree that the African-American community must take responsibility for the loss of values which have enabled us for centuries to survive
in a
hostile environment," writes Bernice Powell Jackson in the June 21 edition
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http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/19180/
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/19180/
Cosby's 'Black Guilt' Trip
By Danielle Worthy, Pacific News Service. Posted July 8, 2004.
Bill Cosby's latest volley of controversial remarks is stirring up fresh controversy in the nation's African-American media.
From the front page to the Op-Ed section, the African-American press is rehashing and dissecting actor and philanthropist Bill Cosby's recent tirades about blacks, with opinions ranging from full-on agreement to flat-out denial.
On July 1, Cosby hurled himself back into the hot seat b
again criticizing the black community, this time alongside Jesse Jackson at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition annual conference.
In response to the charge that he is airing African Americans' dirty lau
ndry, Cosby said, "Let me tell you something. Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every d
ay, it's cursing and calling each other n ' ' - as they're walking up and down the street."
But it was the comedian's first public outburst that really got everyone talking.
On May 17, 2004, at a NAACP celebration marking the 50th anniversary of the 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision that outlawed segregation in schools, 66-year-old Bill Cosby called the oversized clothing of many black youths "ridiculous" and attacked lower class blacks for not speaking proper English, not raising their kids properly by instilling corrupt and materialist-based values and for naming them silly names.
Following Cosby's lead, some commentators worry that blacks hav
e not done enough to improve their situation.
"I agree that the African-American community must take responsibility for the loss of values which have enabled us for centuries to survive
in a
hostile environment," writes Bernice Powell Jackson in the June 21 edition
MORE AT LINK:
http://www.alternet.org/mediaculture/19180/