Why Bill Cosby Was Right

Eugene Williams, Jr., a child actor who worked with Dr. William Cosby in the Jell-O Pudding commercial, has written a rebuttal to Dr. Michael Eric Dyson's book 'Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind'. Williams', work, 'Why Bill Cosby Was Right: Afristocratic Rantings in Post-Obama America' makes a poignant statement.

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• Bill Cosby
• Eugene Williams
• Dr. Eugene Williams
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• Dr. Michael Eric Dyson
• Barack Obama
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[Wiseducators]

African-Americans won't be able to effectively speak truth to power in the new millenium until we take honest and critical look at the role we have played in our own victimhood. I have cousins with advanced degrees, who grew up in the same neighborhoods and under the same conditions as my cousins who have served time in jail for drugs and robbery. The major difference between each group boils down to personal choices more so than disparities in health, education, & employment.

[Wiseducators]

While I appreciate your passion, I guess I am the wrong person to make your argument to. I am the product of two Black parents from underprivileged backgrounds who are first generation college students. Even though none of my grandparents even graduated middle school, they knew the value of education and strong moral values and tried their best to pass those principles on to their kids. They are very well versed in the areas of "white privilege" and economic challenges and have succeeded anyway

[Wiseducators]

Brother Change Agent--The past sins of a messenger don't necessarily detract from the truth and validity of the message. Malcolm X, Jesse Jackson, and several other revered African-American leaders are perfect examples of that examples of that fact. I think the hypocrisy argument could also be levelled at prolific, media-savvy Black scholars like Dr. Dyson who rail against Bill Cosby for "afristocratic" attitudes while teaching in the ivory towers of predominantly white institutions.

[SirChangeAgent]

@DerDrache Adults are having a conversation..please go back to your coloring books.

[anepales]

blah blah blah. millions of immigrants come into this country with nothing but the clothes on their back. poor but what they do have is honor and a dedication to hard work. their kids go these same schools you speak of yet somehow they find themselves graduating college and making something of themselves. keep blaming everyone else for your ills. all the while generations of you live in squalor cuz you're too blind to see that YOU'RE the problem.

[sonbarably]

This is about middle class American inferiority complex. Unlike the psychological condition's imaginary fear, ours is true inferiority.

no mainstream people in the world compare themselves to the poorest and most disenfranchised to feel good about their status.

only an inferior educational system that only serves the wealthy and privately educated well produces such a ridiculous mainstream culture.

[SirChangeAgent]

His need to stand on a soapbox while shouting at the top of his lungs the failings of those of economic challenge while associating such failings to their skin color is extremely short sighted and self serving.

Poverty manifest itself in similar fashion throughout the color spectrum making crime, lack of motivation and a lack of self respect common amongst all poor.

[SirChangeAgent]

The difference my brother is that Malcolm admitted and took responsibility for his sins and Jesse's sins came at a period when he was no longer a viable leader.

This issue is not one of Cosby vs Dyson but one of pandering to mindset behind white privilege withdrawal. Cosby's rhetoric fails on many levels to consider the social factors that play a defining role in the lives of many blacks. Disparity in education, health, employment, etc...

[SirChangeAgent]

Its called being a hypocrite for the sake of peddling his book. I see the intelligent people have come out to play.

[DerDrache]

And what does that have to do with his message, dumbass?