A Boy Like Me - Bill Cosby Breaks It Down

if u tell people they're shit for so long then they start to believe it

Bill Cosby has a home in Lake Tahoe and all the local merchants who deal with him know him as a total tightwad and a complete jerk.

Have you ever heard anyone say anything nice about him personally?

I thought so!!

you mean the same bill cosby who reinvented the perception of black people in america? I personally shaped how i saw black people from his show, as normal people. He is one of the most important black Americans of all time.

now why do want to have a black kid draw like the white kid? maybe it was that the white kid went to a better school ? maybe his mom or dad helped him ? and we are talking about the 70s a lot has changed

It seems the point is that no one helped these kids with the drawings, and that the types of pictures being drawn have little to do directly with one race or culture, with the exception of the house, perhaps. I wonder how many of the kids (of either race) grew up in houses, vs. apartments. If anyone's got a link with more info and detail about these experiments, I'd love to see it. Google's not helping with this so far.

dude that shit is disturbing... especialy the pic were the kid drew himself with a rope around his neck

"Help your neighbors..." is an honorable thing to do, however at the same time we must be concious of our shared history and its effect on our society, be this as uncomfortable as it may be sometimes; not to wallow in feelings of injustice and anger, but to use it as a learning tool to better help our neighbors/strangers. Though it's wrong for policians to maniplate race, Bill Cosby spoke to the problems he saw in society and it was through his comedy that people were actually willing to listen.

Reminds me of when I was a kid in the second grade; we had a test where you had to choose which child was dirty; the white boy or the black boy. I had to ask my friend David Kirksey (whose skin color happened to be a dark brown) what he thought the answer was. He said trust me the black kid, we both found this type of question at that age to be quite disturbing, when you have no sense of racism.

A question like that is asking who you like better, "your mom or your dad or your sis or your bro" (assuming they aren't assholes of course)

Interesting. Was this done as a springboard to a discussion of race, or for some other, perhaps sinister reason?