It looks like Bill Cosby is offering up some diversity of his own: diversity of opinion, something that is sorely missing among the limousine liberal set. Whenever they drone on and on about diversity, they are referring to skin color only. Make no mistake about that.

At the same conference where Jesse Jackson made really dumb remarks, which I’ll get to in a minute, Cosby made a few remarks, too, and his were anything but dumb. From CNSNews:

“It is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us, and it keeps a person frozen in their seat. It keeps you frozen in your hole that you are sitting in to point up and say, ‘That’s the reason why I am here.’ We need to stop this…”I couldn’t care less about what white people think about me at this time….”The housing project was set up for you to move in, move up, and move out.”

Cosby hits upon what is the most misleading aspect of poverty. Economist Thomas Sowell says:

“[T]he left cannot let the public know that most of the people in the lower income brackets are just passing through, instead of being stuck there for life….[M]ost of the people at the bottom of the labor force are young and this is a middle-aged woman with grown children. There are undoubtedly individuals who, for one reason or another, have not moved up over the years, but transforming these exceptions into the rule is part of the magic of left-wing rhetoric.”

Opportunities abound in a free market system, but liberals, in the usual condescending tones, play on fallen man’s class envy, stirring up resentment and promising to raise taxes on the “rich” so their money can go to the “poor.” Denying someone the fruits of his own labor is socialism, which is repugnant and anti-American to the core. As someone who’s blessed to have been born in America and never known one day of bondage, I find the very idea of socialism highly offensive. Let’s get back to the Cos:

You going to tell me that you are going to drop out of school? You are going to tell me that you are going to steal from a store? These things need to be taken care of in the home.”

This should be required listening for liberals. Like all good socialists, they think it’s the government’s responsibility.

Now back to Jesse. Lest we forget, he had some choice words himself. I guess he was trying to be “folksy” when he said about the paucity of black NASCAR drivers, “One thing I know, negroes can drive cars fast. I mean, we go through red lights, even at night with our lights off. We can drive cars fast.” Thank you, oh wise one.

As he often does, he bombed. It’s a sad thing to see a man past his prime, desperate for the spotlight, turning a legitimate civil rights struggle of the past into a caricature. Why NASCAR is in cahoots with the likes of Jackson, I don’t know.

The main point that black liberals and I seem to disagree on most is how much blame, if any, to assign to “racism” and how much should be viewed as the consequences of own behavior.

As a Christian who believes God when He says man is in a fallen state, I know that our sin is our own worst enemy, not what someone else does to us. When we’re affected by the actions of others, it’s plain. But when our own decisions cause misery, it’s not as obvious. It’s not easy to look in the mirror and ask, “What did I do wrong and how can I fix it?”

Jesse Jackson has to eat, too, I suppose, and he’s chosen as a vocation the lucrative profession of racial grievances. Plenty of people want to hear it, need to hear it. Many of you have read my story, A Sobering Truth. One thing getting sober taught me was that I had to look myself in the mirror and face responsibility for what I’d done to myself and others. I could’ve wallowed and blamed a long list of people for my condition. I could’ve used them as excuses to continue living a corrupted life. Looking at that reflection was painful but very liberating.

Cosby’s words are painful to hear but should be just as liberating for people caught in the blame-racism trap. My hope is that people leave the self-pity behind and strive to live life to their fullest potential, especially people living in a country like the United States.

It’s sad to see so many lives wasted by the liberal ideology of blame, grievances and victimhood. I thank God every day for the daily pain of self-examination. Bill Cosby, in all his boldness, is probably thinking the same thing.