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Dr. Boyce discussing Don Imus and Rev. Al Sharpton

 
1)      Why does Bill Cosby only have the courage to blame black people for racial inequality?  The baby of racial inequality has both a mother and a father.  Sorry Bill, you can’t just beat up on the group that can’t fight you back.  You have to be a bigger man than that.
 
2)      Bill Cosby: Ask yourself this question:  Why does a man considered to be “America’s dad”, only feel comfortable addressing the white community when he is telling jokes or dogging his own people?  What better time to address white America for their role in the process than during trips to “Meet the Press”.  Bill, do you think more whites than blacks watch that show?  Why not talk to the people who are watching?  Oh, I forget:  they didn’t do anything wrong and their behavior plays no role in the process.
 
3)      If Cosby were to address white America and its institutions as harshly as he addresses blacks, how fast would he be UNINVITED to Meet The Press? Dr. Huxtable would suddenly be as out of favor as OJ Simpson.  Even the strongest puppy doesn’t bite the hand that feeds him.  Are you choosing to make yourself into a puppy for the right wing? 
 
4)      You say that you don’t talk to white America because they won’t listen to your comments?  Well guess what Bill, BLACK PEOPLE don’t listen EITHER.  Why not speak in a way that challenges both individual behavior and institutional infrastructure?  The same way corporations change their business behavior based on IRS rules, individuals change their behavior based on opportunities available, the quality of the school systems, etc.    
 
5)      It’s always easiest to attack poor, single black mothers, because they are not invited onto talk shows to defend themselves.  Cosby has learned that verbally abusing women and children is an easy way to feel strong.  Even among black people, how often has he mentioned BET and his buddy Bob Johnson for their role in creating a generation of hoochie-mamas and wannabe thugs?  Oh, I forgot, it’s all their parents’ faults, even though many of them are working 12 hours a day at minimum wage something that Cosby knows little about.
 
Bill, in order to solve a problem, mathematics says that you must work on both sides of the equation.  Why you are afraid to challenge America’s institutions, but yet, you go after black mothers and children is beyond me.  It is not productive to walk in the middle of a fight and tell one of the kids that he is wrong, while letting the other kid go off and play.  But then again, that’s the way the black kids are always treated in our school systems, as we learned in the Jena 6.
 
One can’t be sure who is worse: Bill Cosby, who engages in the non-sensical act of complaining to black people in front of predominantly white audiences, or the scientist James Watson, who said that he can prove that black people are genetically inferior to whites.  What is scary is that Watson would listen to the words of Cosby and agree with him 100%.
 
 

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