Cheesefood
Well-Known Member
I never watch this show, but Bill Cosby is on and surprisingly it's more interesting than playing video games right now. He's speaking on the whole "Black people need to quit 'acting black'" campaign. I completely agree with a lot of his views on this stuff and in many ways it makes me feel guilty for listening to rap. He's joined by Alvin Poussaint, Prof. of Psych at Harvard. They're talking about everything from the language black people use ('N-word', 'Acting White', etc) and the crisis that's facing the black community as a result of the breakdown in values / personal accountability in the majority of the black culture.
Having grown up in a fully mixed area and having gone to schools that were ~50% black, I've personally seen and experienced a lot of these negative stereotypes and known kids my age who got fitted for a coffin before graduating high school.
I'm very glad that someone with the street cred of Cosby is saying this stuff. Even though The Cosby Kids had many of these stereotypes, I think he's doing great work.
Having grown up in a fully mixed area and having gone to schools that were ~50% black, I've personally seen and experienced a lot of these negative stereotypes and known kids my age who got fitted for a coffin before graduating high school.
I'm very glad that someone with the street cred of Cosby is saying this stuff. Even though The Cosby Kids had many of these stereotypes, I think he's doing great work.