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Originally posted by Kimmie1913
Thank you for so eloquently articulating exactly how I feel. I agree with some of what Bill says, but I am not sure what he is accomplishing or that how he is going about it will have any impact. More often than not I think he is "preaching to the choir." I think many of the situations he describes are ones that have spiraled out of control and even those in them are not clear how to make a difference. Is he really proposing good working solutions? A bunch of Christian brothers throwing on suits and running up on drug dealers in Baltimore is just going to add to the body count. That is not a safe or realistic solution. Can we talk about what works and what can work and how we can really make a difference?
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Bill is not preaching to the choir. He is speaking in those communities where these things are happening. He is being INVITED by the leaders in those communities. What he is doing is shedding light on our inertia at dealing with our own self-inflicted problems. Bill is NOT ATTACKING POOR PEOPLE. He is attacking the BAD DECISION_MAKERS whose NEGATIVITY affects/effects us ALL. Black America cannot advance as long as a sizable segment continues to be an albatross around our necks. Our constant babying of these people and our unwillingness to call then on the carpet and deal with them without this benign paternalism is part of their undoing. We continue to be enablers. Along with the omnipresent failsafe of "institutional racism" and other convenient deflections, we provide the excuse for the continuance of every kind of social pathology that only can be found in us.
Cosby is saying that the ENEMY is within and must be dealt with as such. To continue to deflect the blame and solutions onto people outside the community is to condemn us to just more of the same ineffectual handling of the crisis.
Cosby is giving the clarion call. The communities must hear and deal. He is telling us to GROW UP and TAKE RESPONSIBILTY or are we really just CHILDREN in the way we behave and beseech others to absolve us and then pay us out of self -dug hole.
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