What is Bill Cosby on?

http://www.waxy.org/archive/2006/03/03/litigati.shtml

The above link is what motivated this rant...

I grew up watching the Cosby show, and until recently I had never realized what the show was on a sociological level, and that Bill Cosby had an agenda.

Y'see, Bill has since gone on to buy the rights to shows like The Little Rascals and take them out of circulation as he views them as bad for Black America. In his view, characters like Stymie and Buckwheat are not what Black America should be subjected to, and that The Little Rascals was actually racist in its nature...

...let's forget that the show depicted young black AND white kids playing together with NO racial strife between them. The show ROUTINELY showed kids getting into trouble and doing things that kids simply do no matter what color they are, and the show NEVER played the race card with regard to the children.

Instead of focusing on that, we are going to focus on the historically accurate depiction of what Stymie and Buckwheat's parents did for a living - you know because in the roaring twenties, every Black in America was Joe Louis, or Duke Ellington, and they all lived in swinging Harlem. Cosby needs a reality check on that...

Which brings me to the Cosby Show itself. While entertaining, I think that many people missed the point that Cosby was driving at with the show:

Cosby's depiction of his television family represented his ideal of Blacks living like Whites...

Which is NOT a bad thing. Though, the reality is that not every Black is a doctor, and such a lifestyle for Blacks in America is not an easy goal to set.

I think that Bill forgets that he has a GED (he dropped out of High School), and that he eventually got an ATHLETIC scholarship to Temple University through serendipity and the Navy. Has Bill Cosby ever considered his life hinges on a lot of CHANCE? Has he considered that he lucked out, and that many Black families do not?

I agree with his view that only the Blacks in this country can do anything to help the situation, but for him to act like hundreds of years of discrimination have not played a role in the situation that many Blacks find themselves in America, is at best a view that is not sensitive to the realities of life for many people.

But I do not think that he is a Civil Rights Leader or anything along that line. I think that the lawsuit that I pointed to in the beginning shows Bill's true colors. Bill Cosby is simply about Bill Cosby. If you recall his career, Cosby was damn near an Uncle Tom until recently - which I am sure has nothing to do with his books and movies that he is writing.

No one sees the irony of him writing the Fat Albert script for the 2004 movie, and the fact that he has taken The Little Rascals off television? You know because it is better to show poor Black kids hanging around a junkyard with other poor black kids... thinking back to the little I saw of that AWFUL movie, I do not recall to many parts played by White folk - so what is Bill telling us?

Bill Cosby needs to go away and let America grow on its own. While Cosby has made some interesting points about race, I believe that they are self-serving at best and no one is listening one way or another. The fact that he would sue to have a parody of him removed from a website demonstrates what is important to Bill Cosby.

He will always be remembered as a brilliant actor, and perhaps he should consider that before his next PR stunt...