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For eight television seasons (NBC, 1984-92), the Emmy Award-winning The Cosby Show, written by and starring comedian Bill Cosby, beamed an unflinching, yet humorous black family portrait into living rooms across America. Cosby, as Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, presided over this historic foray into black upper-middle class life. The sitcom was a window into a certain, often enviable kind of black familial and romantic love, a showcase for amazing talent and a place where the situations or “problems” of a black family were mostly just the same as any other. The No. 1 hit celebrates its 25th anniversary this Sunday.
In this second installation of Cosby’s exclusive interview with The Root, the show’s creator shares the story of his political evolution, including strong words on black fatherhood, women in the Huxtable house, Joe Wilson, Jesse Jackson and rap music.
The Root: I read a recent speech on education you gave on Detroit—that’s policy, not just politics. Did you feel like you needed to do more?
Bill Cosby: You have to do more! …. The Detroit speech was my reaction to 460 young men, black and Hispanic, between the ages of 16 to 25, being murdered by their own. This is insane. And then when you look into the areas where the education is 70 percent dropout. You start with a class of 100 kids in ninth grade, and by the time they reach the twelfth, 30 people graduate.
They need love. They need Huxtabling. I have said out loud: The revolution is in the house. It’s in the apartment. The revolution is in your apartment building; it’s on your street, it’s in your neighborhood.
TR: You’ve suggested Barack Obama is a unique phenomenon—is he so exceptional?
You can’t get elected because of somebody you see on TV ….
Now, there are people crying because they don’t want [Obama] to tell their children something where he may influence them. What is that about? These people are calling him all kinds of names. They’re begging politicians to ‘stop him.’ They’re calling him a Marxist socialist, and then in the middle of a speech where a man is trying to straighten out the lies that are being told on health care reform, and a man stands up and says ‘You lie!’
TR: When your TV son, Theo, asked to be “a regular person,” Cliff yelled at him. You’ve brought that disciplinary instinct across the country, to your ‘call-outs,’ and to your infamous “Pound Cake Speech” to the NAACP. Is this, as Jesse Jackson says, “talking down to black people”?
Gloria Steinem said, “The truth shall set you free, but first it’ll piss you off.”And when you [hear about what] I said in 2004, they leave out a statement on purpose. That statement is: Our children are trying to tell us something. And we’re not listening. I brought up the dropout rate from our schools. I brought up our children leaving school and walking down the street and loudly cursing, using profanity.
Next thing I know, some bright person writing for TIME magazine says ‘Bill Cosby is putting our dirty laundry in the street.’ That makes no sense. I’m not putting your dirty laundry in the street …. If you go around the room, you will hear people [agreeing with what I said] —but [saying] ‘Why did he have to say it in public?’ Well, excuse me. If I can’t say it an affair held by Howard University—when I last looked it was a black college—and in partnership with the NAACP—when I last looked the last two letters meant ‘colored people’—where can I say it?
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You’ve repeatedly tried to tarnish my credibility as an educator by insinuating that I’m making my experiences up. Now it’s my turn. Your comments have become quite popular with our local trolls. Many of them have even addressed comments to you, and yet you, as an educator have said nothing in response. Now I could give you the benefit of the doubt and assume that you chose to ignore there comments because they were obviously the work of trolls, but since you insist on besmirching my authenticity I’m going to ask you to respond to my question. What is your reaction to the quotes I have gathered below? As an educator do you find it disturbing that your comments have been twisted and deformed in to the blatant racism being spewed here? Would you like to say anything to counter the racist hatred your (supposedly) innocent observations are being used to justify? Well here’s your chance:
Tar baby: (Great name don’t you think?)
Blacks will always be what they are, the most inferior race of people in this country, because they either do not have the capability to change or better theirselves or simply do not want to
Powerful One:
The only thing that blacks are good at is making excuses, blaming others and using the color of their skin as a crutch. The average black in this country could not even spell the words accountability and responsibility, let alone adhere to what the words mean and allude to. Sickening, weak and inferior.
Profiler:
Can you imagine if schools cut out football and basketball? Black attendance would drop dramatically and no convenience store or gas station would be safe.
Don Imus: (yet another witty name, and look he addressed YOU directly)
Kerena, I will give you a clue.....sniff you can smell Nola the Nigger. Tonight is the night.
The Teacher: (another one who likes your work)
The excuses and lies just go on and on and what it proves BEYOND ANY DOUBT.....the majority of blacks in this country are despicable and worthless and that will NEVER change because you can't help a race of people that don't want to change.
NigNewton: (here we go again, can’t even hold the hatred in until the get to the comment)
I agree totally with poster Kerena. It is not hard to determine the color of one's skin just by the content of their post and this Nola person tries to be coy about her, his or it's ethnicity. The reason vermin like Nola and Delta don't want to see the truth is typical of blacks in this country. They are ashamed of being black and who wouldn't be. What a shameful race of people. What an ignorant race of people. What a lazy race of people. What a pathetic race of people. The lowest form of scum that populates and soils this country. And when you bring in their resemblance to primates they really get defensive. Face the facts, that is how god created you or wait a minute, maybe god had nothing to do with it. Look at the blacks in this country, the nose, the lips, the hands, the feet, the hair, the way they lumber around - all exact traits and characteristics of the average primate. That must be hard to take especially for the women when they see all of the beautiful white, hispanic and oriental women in this country. Everytime they look in the mirror they are shamed and what do they do, they get defense about anything and everything that is brought up about the black race including the obvious lack of education in the black communities. Parenting is the key as the poster Kerena has so accurate and succinctly pointed out but black idiots get defensive. Parenting in the black communities is a joke with the fathers being nothing but unresponsible sperm donors. Will black america ever wake up. You can't change a race of people that are inherently lazy, ignorant, does wnat to change and blames everyone else. Monkey see, monkey do!!
Don Imus:
After all most blacks do not have the genetic makeup to be anything but a burden on this country and having the need to use racism and discrimination as their tools to survive
Race Card:
And should get down on your hands and knees everyday of your life (preferably before you beat your wife) and thank the white man because if it wasn't for the white man your black azz would of been born or should I say dropped from a tree in a jungle in the middle of Africa. The white man is the reason you have the opportunities that you do in this country. If we had depend on the black man, we would be as dismal and pathetic and third world as most of the ugly continent of Africa is. Most of that cesspool does not even have indoor toilets.
This is a small sampling from only a few pages, but you get the idea. I have cut and pasted directly with no editing, other than my own comments which are in parethesis. So, Kerena, as and educator, what do you think of all of your fans?
WOW! I see ya'll have been giving our trolls hell today LOL. Their foolishness never ceases to amaze and amuse me. The fact that the exchanges have been intellectually one sided is unsuprising.
BTW Cellomama - no need to engage my demented troll stalker on my behalf (though I appreciate the love :)) I see they are trotting out their selective theory of evolution again. The same tired arguments, based not on science or fact, but a desperate need to assert their supremacy over others... What sad, emotionally and spiritually bereft lives they must live.