BlackLili
April 12th, 2008, 10:56 AM
I found this while scrolling thru news stories Saturday morning. While the author is obviously a personal friend of Cosby's, he doesn't pull any punches when it comes to the flaws he finds in the "call-outs" delivered by Cosby thruout the nation. Delivered respectfully but with a deadly accuracy, the author holds up the comedian and orator's shtick to a higher standard.
Written for The Atlantic Monthly magazine by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, published later this month.
"This Is How We Lost to the White Man"
'The Audacity of Bill Cosby's Conservatism' (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/cosby)
/favorite snip
Toward the end of our lunch, in a long, rambling monologue, Cosby told me, “If you looked at me and said, ‘Why is he doing this? Why right now?,’ you could probably say, ‘He’s having a resurgence of his childhood.’ What do I need if I am a child today? I need people to guide me. I need the possibility of change. I need people to stop saying I can’t pull myself up by my own bootstraps. They say that’s a myth. But these other people have their mythical stories—why can’t we have our own?”
Written for The Atlantic Monthly magazine by Ta-Nehisi Coates, the author of The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood, published later this month.
"This Is How We Lost to the White Man"
'The Audacity of Bill Cosby's Conservatism' (http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200805/cosby)
/favorite snip
Toward the end of our lunch, in a long, rambling monologue, Cosby told me, “If you looked at me and said, ‘Why is he doing this? Why right now?,’ you could probably say, ‘He’s having a resurgence of his childhood.’ What do I need if I am a child today? I need people to guide me. I need the possibility of change. I need people to stop saying I can’t pull myself up by my own bootstraps. They say that’s a myth. But these other people have their mythical stories—why can’t we have our own?”