That's the message Bill Cosby is trying to send regarding problems within the black community.
"You´ve got these idiots who´ve got these degrees and some of them are ordained ministers and they say, `Bill, you´re picking on the poor,´" he said. He then drew laughs by adding, "Well, so did Jesus then. Jesus was always telling someone, `Go ye.´ Jesus was always telling people to go somewhere. And `don´t do this again or don´t do that again.´"
Wearing a sweater with a Yale University logo in honor of Newark Mayor Cory A. Booker, a Yale Law School graduate, Cosby saved some of most pointed words for radio stations that play music that he called "pro-murder and anti-women" and said adults are equally complicit if they fail to speak up.
"I haven´t seen the demonstrations saying, `I´m not allowing my children to listen to this," he said. "It´s killing us. We´re not talking about it, and we´re not beating it down."
Cosby is right, of course. The problems within the black community have as much to do with individual behavior as with institutional racism. But, let's face it; it's far easier to blame some societal ill on "institutional" rather than individual behavior.
This is a solution many liberals espouse on virtually a daily basis. And if you don't go along with whichever governmental solution they are touting these days, then you are just a heartless jerk who doesn't "feel the pain" of the poor or racial minorities.
Remember the War on Poverty? That series of taxpayer-supported programs was supposed to eliminate poverty in America. We've spent billions of dollars for 40-odd years on programs, yet moonbats are still shrieking about "the bottom 20%" of American households. When you point out that in any formula, there has to be a "bottom 20%" and that the "bottom 20%" of American households aren't poor by global standards, liberals sniffily complain that we still need to redistribute money because it's not "fair."
That's the argument Obama used when asked April 16 about capital gains taxes. Even while backpedaling on his proposal, it's clear Obama thinks, somehow, top earners will blithely fork over larger and larger portions of their income without trying to control the tax bite.
But I digress.
Bill Cosby's been denegrated by the left for speaking the unthinkable words that parents are in charge of their children and that many of the problems associated with the black community are based on a culture of victimhood. There are plenty of racial minorities who have found ways to succeed despite racism. Looking for excuses elsewhere is counterproductive.
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