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OT: fmikehugo - NAACP/Urban League

There may be a turning of the tide -- a little bit anyhow. I don't think anyone is going to shut Bill Cosby up. He is standing on the moral high ground, when he takes to task those who would squander so much that civil rights advocates fought and even (some) died for. And he says it so plain and true, it's almost pointless to dispute.

I think the tired old race-baiting response from the manipulators that use their "leadership" status in minority communities to divide for their own benefit rather than raise up, are going to hold much water. In fact, every sign in their reaction is that they are dead afraid of taking on Cosby.

And who was the most celebrated "new shining star" at the Democractic Convention? Barack Obama - who had quite an interesting approach to those issues, talking about the same things Cosby has, personal responsibility, etc. -- and stood as the personal embodiment of which fork in the road, which philosophy leads to the American dream.

I never did quite understand how nobody ever decided to call Jesse Jackson on the yawning gulf between some of his more demogogic rhetoric pandering to division and race-baiting and the politics of victimhood, and the contrast of how he directed his own family and raised his own children. If he'd sent the same message to the rest of his followers as he sent to his own children, if he'd established the same expectations for personal responsibility and achievement, I don't think it's an exaggeration to say we'd be living in a very different America right now.