Bill Cosby: One of America’s Funniest Comedians
Tuesday January 29, 2008
Comedian and Emmy Award winner Bill Cosby has become one of America’s most successful performers. He has a unique comic style that is not just family friendly but also highly entertaining. Cosby, however, is more than a comedian: he is an author and has most recently begun speaking out against destructive behaviors in the African American community.
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Saw the Bill Cosby’s interview a while back and felt the compassion and deep interest Cosby has for Black self realization and I think with all details of Dr. King’s Dream made a wonderful effort to define the current social dilemma. Today viewing CNN which was the only Station to show Maya Angelou’s support for Hillary Clinton got me interested to reflect on her and some of her work.
But my interest goes a lot deeper than just a study of the culture that is permeating the Black entertainment part of society. If one views the contrasting differences comparing Oprah Winfrey, and Maya Angelou, one can see a striking difference and quality in elegance Maya Angelou has as compared to the glitzy, glaring to some what harsh moneyed mainstream Media builders Oprah is.
Here, one wonders about some of the language that is tossed about in Black contemporary wrap music. Much of it is hate full, divisive, and inspired with drugs, sex, and violence, with links to an economy that favors corrections or a the criminal edge, Black gangster wrap.
With some of my Black friends I pitched a question as to why a lot of Black men call each other “Dog” like hey dog what’s up. Some of the language one can hear in a hot summer night carries a foul tone, hate rant, some with built in homicide action that clearly could not be played in the electromagnetic public domain, yet it is pounding in the night silence and drawing anyone to listen in.
From what I could see in Obama’s stand on such an issue that needs social addressing, is that he would let it play out in its evolution, this Black wrap. A very disappointing position to take from my view. Just wonder what Maya might think, or you about this stuff and open debate.
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I think what Bill Cosby said about Black American families today is true. But problems exisit in every culture it’s just that we as black people have no positive highlights that are publicized as a positive Black Nation. What are we known for stabbing each other in the back, or cutthroatting each other. That comment is what any black person would say that is ignorant. So yes Most African American People Do Need Education!