Cobb

I totally understand your point. In fact, I was just explaining something similar to my best friend yesterday. I let Cosby's words fly over my head during his last distribe. On some points, I actually agreed with him. But this time, his words annoyed me to no end. I was saying, "Man. You made your point, now zip it."

By The Way...I really enjoy reading your blog. God Bless.

[i]We get the point, now hand off the baton.
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Where's the receiver??

I don't even know where to start. If you get the point, where's the action. To say, "I hear you, now shut up!" don't really impress me that you have gotten the point.

Cosby is saying something that has long needed saying. And he said it twice. The second time was one too many for you, huh? But Jesse, and Al, and the Black Congressional Caucus, and the NAACP, etc., etc., etc., can keep right on singing the same old refrain of victimhood and no one is telling them to shut up.

Now call me Uncle Tom, or racist. Black or white, those two labels eliminate the need to listen or respond. Game, set, match. Right?

I don't think you get my point. Perhaps you ought to read this blog more in depth as well as those in The Conservative Brotherhood. What I'm saying is that Cosby and the other Fungibles are getting more attention than they deserve primarily because the politics of people like us is not given the appropriate coverage.

If you are an uncle tom for writing five sentences, what are we for writing for five months?

Tell a friend.

Cobb, I have a question for you.

If I've heard Jesse Jackson, Mfume, Ellijah Cummings, and other "Black leaders" saying the same thing, and the press didn't print it, does it mean that they never said it?

Yes, I've heard it. So, as far as appropriate coverage, is it just a "Black conservative" thing?

It may be, but I still think of them as Civil Rights leaders from whom I expect there is little political growth, or escape from their orthodoxy. They are the political equivalents of flat earthers in a world where blacks have finally travelled around the globe.

There is nothing they can do for me, and I expect that for a growing segment of African America that is true as well. This is the segment I want to go with into the Republican Party.

On the other hand, I think that there are (and this is what concerns me practically, not theoretically) notable African Americans whom I would listen to despite their Democrat orientation. Somebody like Vernon Jordan or Barry Rand - captains of industry with no liberal illusions and conflict about captialism, I want to listen to. It may very well be that Parsons or Chenault are Democrats. Let's hear what they have to say.

There is nothing they can do for me

There may be nothing they can do for you or I, but recognizing they said something that others claim they didn't, doesn't mean you buy onto their program.

The truth is the truth.

But the point is that they are not credible political figures. Jesse Jackson could get on television and say the sky is up and people will still think he's a liar. Just like many Americans don't care what George W. Bush says or does next, they're just sick of hearing him talk and they want him to disappear. That's what we're talking about here. The truth is that the Republican party is the party of Lincoln. Does that do anything for you?

What truth do you want to hear, and who do you want to hear it from? That's part of the calculations of our public politics.

"...Jesse Jackson could get on television and say the sky is up and people will still think he's a liar. Just like many Americans don't care what George W. Bush says or does next, they're just sick of hearing him talk and they want him to disappear..."

You think so? I think more folks view him as inadvertent comedy; a better comedian than Cosby, in fact.

At least he can make his stuff rhyme.

Passing the baton??

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