When Bill Cosby released a statement about his remarks at the recent NAACP event honoring the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, I thought he’d issued a cringe-worthy apology for upsetting limousine liberals. What a relief that he didn’t.
Instead, it was an attempt to correct liberal media rumors about his remarks:
Bill Cosby says that media rumors that he has abandoned the African American lower economic community are grossly exaggerated….
The article in the [Washington] Post failed to mention that Mr. Cosby’s remarks were specifically in context to addressing the epidemic of an estimated 50% of African American males in the inner city that are dropping out of school. The Post article inaccurately characterized Cosby’s remarks as a general criticism of the black lower economic classes.
The liberal media will exaggerate and mischaracterize anyone’s comments critical of blacks. It must be Liberal Journalist Rule #5.
The always great Walter Williams compares and contrasts Cosby’s remarks with Julian “Broken Record” Bond’s uttered at a recent liberal gathering, and asks which are more helpful to blacks:
Cosby: “With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and all of them are in jail. Brown vs. the Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We have got to take the neighborhood back. We have to go in there — forget about telling your child to go into the Peace Corps — it is right around the corner. They are standing on the corner, and they can’t speak English.”
Contrast the gist of these remarks to those of Julian Bond, NAACP chairman, to the group’s 94th annual convention: Republicans appeal “to the dark underside of American culture, to the minority of Americans who reject democracy and equality.” Bond added, “They preach racial neutrality and practice racial division … their idea of reparations is to give war criminal Jefferson Davis a pardon.”
Cosby’s comments, as well as others he made, show that he’s willing to address the pressing problems of the black community, as opposed to Bond’s grandstanding on the behalf of the Democratic Party. Black people will accomplish much more by focusing on the issues of crime, illegitimacy, poor parenting and slovenly behavior than worrying about whom the Republican Party is appealing to and racial discrimination.
Bottom line time. This is what liberals are all about: “[I]f black politicians and civil rights groups diagnose black illegitimacy, crime and anti-intellectualism as caused by racial discrimination or the Republican Party, they can spend all the resources they please fighting discrimination and the Republican Party and do nothing for illegitimacy, crime and anti-intellectualism-induced poor academic performance.”
This is exactly what limousine liberals do. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again at the risk of attracting nasty trolls: Immorality, not racism, is the black community’s biggest problem. Let’s be clear. Immorality is everyone’s problem, but the consequences appear to be more devastating to the black community.
By the way, when Rush Limbaugh is out of town for a week or more, Walter Williams usually guest hosts on Fridays. If you haven’t heard him on the radio, you should try to catch him. He’s the one guest host who doesn’t make me wish Rush would hurry back.
I hope more men like Williams are being raised in the black community. It’s time for the old dinosaurs to pass away and make room for reasoned, critical thinkers and those who are really interested in the integrity and dignity of black people.
