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04/15/2008: "Bill Cosby summons his inner Malcolm X"

From Birmingham to Cleveland and Baltimore, at churches and colleges, Cosby has been telling thousands of black Americans that racism in America is omnipresent but that it can't be an excuse to stop striving. As Cosby sees it, the antidote to racism is not rallies, protests, or pleas, but strong families and communities. Instead of focusing on some abstract notion of equality, he argues, blacks need to cleanse their culture, embrace personal responsibility, and reclaim the traditions that fortified them in the past. Driving Cosby's tough talk about values and responsibility is a vision starkly different from Martin Luther King's gauzy, all-inclusive dream: it's an America of competing powers, and a black America that is no longer content to be the weakest of the lot.

[ Quite right. It's time Blacks started being constructive and positive. It's no use hoping to eradicate "racism" as far as that means the general inability of races to live cheek by jowl however. ]

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/cosby