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Originally posted by strivingsf
Please forgive the long post.
I believe that Bill Cosby's barage of negativity does not help the people he berated. What is he doing in those communities to make a difference. YOu can not throw money at a problem and expect the problem to go away, you can not expect SOME people who are limited in their outlook on the world to change overnight.
Bill, when you see a problem with the children, teenagers, young adults do you just shake your head and walk away, then go before a national press and "air dirty laundry". Either step up or shut up. How is Bill helping teenage mothers so they could complete school and attend college, what about african american boys who are over represented in special education classes, and the children who are routinely medicated because they do not follow the "you sit and listen, I teach" method public schools still practice. In most public schools teachers frown upon group projects, collabrative learning, students teaching other students.
I am sick of people saying there is a problem in the African American community and can not provide a viable solution.
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Striving,
You are contradicting yourself...on one hand you are saying he shouldn't throw money at folks and just walk away, and then on the other hand you ask what it is he is doing to help? What else can an individual do besides offer money to orgs who are set up to help the less fortunate? Certainly someone like Bill Cosby, or Joe Schmo for that matter would not make an impact by driving to the hood and "lecturing" folks about the mistakes they are making.
I also don't subscribe to this airing of the dirty laundry syndrome. Were you under the guise that the rest of the world is unaware that the African diaspora is in a state of constant crisis?
Yes, we were/are the victims of psychological genecide, but that aside, we at some point have to stop the apathy and stop making excuses for laziness.
I could go on for days with this....
