Cosby: Brutally honest or elitist snob?

Earlier this month Bill Cosby took a segment of the black community to task on issues from their grammar to complaints about police brutality. Some people said he was being brutally honest, while others said his remarks were a classist, elitist attack on the poor. What do you think? Read the story: Some angry, some agree with Cosby criticisms Renee Graham commentary: This Cosby show is undeserved

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Finally somebody has some brains in Hollywood. Leave it to Bill Cosby to set it straight. What he says is true if he was white he would have been crucified and run out of town. Bill Cosby is and has been and always will be the very best of the rest, and a class act as well.

Kevin

Mr Cosby has said what many of our Black Leaders have failed to say. You see whats going around in the black community and our leaders sit back and do nothing about it by not making us accountable as individuals. Mr Cosby was right on target with his comments. The people that were angered by his comments, I hope that they are angered enough into doing something positive to reverse the negative trend we see in many black communities.

Alexander J

why can't people just take these comments for what they are? where does the race thing come from? if what he is saying is true, shouldn't we as parents be more concerned over the facts then what color is the person who said them?

Chris

This is the United States of America, and Bill Cosby has done enough good in his life to be entitled to the opinion the Constitution and Bill of Rights provide to him.

Brian

Mr. Cosby is right on the money, and people just don't like to hear the truth. Here's the real question. Isn't this the true fallout from a Democrat Liberal society of social handouts? Don't teach a man how to fish so he'll have food for life, but give him food stamps and wellfare so he can buy booze and crack and watch Jerry Springer on TV. It's not a white or black issue. It's a lazy thing. Wake up America!

Charlie

The respect I have for Mr. Cosby has grown ten-fold since his speech. The man tells it like it is.

Julie

Bill Cosby is right. It is about time somebody spoke up. I do not know for how long African Americans are going to blame the White people for their situation instead of trying to better themselves. If people from Africa can come here, go to school, get a good education and make something of themselves, what excuse do African Americans who had resources at their disposal but just never bothered to use them have? It is about time African Americans took responsibility for their own futures and stopped living in the past.

wambui

Being Honest.

Brian

I grew up very very poor and had welfare surrounding me. A family right next door to me had a similar situation. My family (all 7 kids) has risen up the circumstances, put ourselves through college and we all own property and work hard for everything we have. The other family (with the exception of one) has repeated the welfare cycle and has constantly blamed everyone but themselves for their situation. I have no patience to help people that are not willing BUT able to help themselves. Rise above your situation and make it better. Kudos to Mr. Cosby - if it was a white person speaking those words - it would be much worse.

Fran

I agree with Mr. Cosby. I am an educated black woman who was raised by a single parent in the late seventies and eighties. We had lots of obstacles in our way and instead of letting us be defeated by them, my mother showed my siblings and me how to get around them. She was our role model and the driving force behind who we are today. Proper English and grammer were a must in our household. She never spent money on extravegances when there were more important things to be done, like pay rent and buy groceries. We were on welfare for a short time, but that was only while my mom went back to school for a career change. I grew up in a time when it was considered beating the odds just to have one child of a single black mother graduate high school. My older siblings and I all graduated and I continued onto and finished college. Today the road blocks are fewer and yet the number of people stopped by them are greater. I think that for many it is a choice. It is easier to sit back and have everything done for you than to do for yourself. What happened to Black Pride and Black Power? All of the so called black role models of today are doing more to accentuate the negative, than get us back on track to our future. A future where many died trying to do many of the things that they take for granted, like read and write. I think more Black figure heads should stand up and tell it like it is. We should all look around and step in where ever we see blacks letting down their children. That is the worst of the black on black crimes in this country.

Sylea