Thursday, May 18, 2006

Cosby Continuing to Force Black America to Wash Its Dirty Laundry

I don’t know what party affiliation comedian and actor Bill Cosby has, but I continue to cheer the things that he is saying. Cosby was back on the road this week passing out more of what Black liberal/moderate America needed most: conservative ideas for the problems that no one wants to openly talk about.

“Comedian Bill Cosby told a forum on family and education Tuesday night that African Americans should be proactive and fix their own communities.
‘I have a problem with people sitting there and saying God and Jesus will find a way,’ Cosby said.
He also said he had a problem ‘with churches who allow drug dealers to set up two blocks away.’ The audience cheered several times during Cosby's remarks.
The star of the hit situation comedy "The Cosby Show" was at the University of the District of Columbia as part of his nationwide tour, "A Call Out with Cosby," which is designed to spark debate about family and educational issues among black communities.”

Two things stand out here. First, what Cosby is saying is a conservative response to societal issues in the black community. The core of Cosby’s message is self reliance – both for the individual and the community. People are far better off when they take control of their own lives, than to wait for government and social workers to come up with some magical cure that won’t take any effort on their part to fix. Liberals tend to “poo-poo” any conservative message that is sent because you can’t guarantee an across-the-board, one-time-for-all fix for a problem what people won’t have to get out of their comfort zone to fix. This type of solution is not how life works, and any “solution” that one would come up with in this category does only one thing for sure; it creates dependence on others to fix your problems. Once you do that, someone else owns you – the new slavery.

Second, his message was received with applause and approval from the audience. Cosby spoke at University of District of Columbia. This should stand out in conservative’s minds because, as most people know, the District of Columbia is what we affectionately call Washington D.C. – socially, it’s a liberal Mecca. Not only this, but he spoke at a university. Institutions of higher learning, as a whole, are great bastions of liberalism – especially among faculty and alumni. So, we have a black man who went into a liberal organization inside a liberal Mecca and unapologetically spoke conservativism with conservative solutions to societal problems – a dangerous thing sometimes. How did the liberals in attendance respond? Accounts of Cosby’s “Call to Action” forum say “the audience cheered several times during Cosby’s remarks” and D.C. mayor Anthony Williams presented him with “a ceremonial proclamation naming May 16 as ‘Bill Cosby Day’ in recognition of the work Cosby has done to support African-American communities.”

This is good news conservatives! The message here is clear: people who seem not to be reachable are reachable through your ideas. Stick to your conservative message with belief, confidence, power and conviction. Your ideas work and people will listen.


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