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Originally posted by Phasad1913
Once again, I agree with you. I get upset when the media cover his remarks and present it as if blacks were so outraged and shocked. When he first made his remarks, the black people in the audience cheered and most of the commentary among blacks that I have heard since has been in agreement with what he has said. I hate it how people want to think that the problems Mr. Cosby has identitfied are are not ones that many others have been frustrated about and trying to come up with solutions for.
You've got hundreds of community organizations, including my own, working with kids every day trying to fight these external influences coming at them. You have protests going on at Black college campuses (i.e. Spelman). You've got hundereds of thousands of parents meeting with each other trying to organize against the music industry, etc. etc. etc. By the way, none of these things include sitting around waiting for the government to do anything. Why aren't these things being shown more so people can see it and jump on the bandwagon? Could it be that the media consistently opts out of covering things like this??? hmmmmm.
So, yeah, I hear what Bill is saying and all that, but I would have prefered reading/hearing about more things that are being done by those people who were glad to hear him say what he said! I would have even wanted to hear more about what HE has done, which is a LOT, for these causes.
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Here's my conspiracy theory as to why this doesn't take place. Take it with a grain of salt, because I do. But anything is possible I guess
Media companies are often part of large conglomerates. For the media to publicize these efforts that could potentially create a large swelling of public sentiment against certain recording artists would go against their bottom line. Viacom who owns CBS ALSO owns MTV. I'm sure they own at least one or more record labels as well. Why would they want to create protests against themselves?
It's really not that huge of a stretch. Viacom and other TV networks give screen time to the movies, books and other such ventures within their organization and they present it as part of the news (or the entertainment segment).
So that's my conspiracy theory.
