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Name: RodEckstein

Comment: Much respect for "The Cos". He's single-handedly trying to tell our people to turn our communities around.

Name: touch26

Comment: if you call getting in front of the well educated, well to do, and white folk clowning lost black folk single handedly helping to turn the black community around what Cos does something great maybe you should think a little deeper. Clowning the people he claims to be wanting help by using their actions, as outrageous & self destructive as they my be as part of his comedy routine makes him both cruel and disrespectful. Keep in mind he's not going to the "hood" and speaking these things directly to the people he claims to care so much about and neither is he pouring his $$ into these neighborhoods by creating programs that actually work to improve the lives of these people or encourage them to make better decisions that will both benefit those individuals, their children, and ultimately that neighborhood. In his own mind he may really feel like he's helping people by downing them, but unfortunately that method only makes people less receptive of the message. Hell, Billy wouldn't like for people to tell him about his own self in the manner he chooses to "help" these people now would he? Would he like for people to get into every camera pointed at them and speak like him, make motions of an old man putting something into a drink, and then passing it to a young woman more than half his age & have the person playing the young woman pass-out and then the person playing Cos starts having his way with the knocked-out woman's body? All I'm saying is that there is a better way to help someone other than making a mockery out of their negative behaviors. The only thing that does more often than not is make them more rebelious. Cos ain't no saint, but of course by him being educated, wealthy, and a star buys him immunity from being downed by a lot of people even when his own actions are just as bad or worse than the actions of those he uses as derisions for his comedy act. Oh, and for the record, I never thought that he was that funny when he was younger & I'm sure that he's even less so now. He's like Jesse Jackson, it's pretty much over for him and maybe he can be more helpful from the back as oppose screwing up things by still trying to be in the front!

Name: Jack_Blackmusic

Comment: Concur with Touch26

Name: allaboutlydia

Comment: I respectfully disagree with you Touch26. I have seen Cosby address the crowd he is trying to reach. ANd it was not via a comedy routine. I have videos of him speaking at various schools to students. There is one moving speech he gives called "C students get out of the way of the A and B students." I've seen him on forums regarding black youth and violence. Perhaps these don't get airplay. But what he says is quite relevant. And while he is on saint (no one is) the messages need to be spoken. At one forum someone accused him of "airing our dirty laundry" and he replied "your dirty laundry airs itself. It's on the trains and buses at 3:00 in the afternoon afterschool, it's on the music videos, etc". Good comeback. Our dirty laundry shows itself on the streets with drug dealing, drive by shootings. Why is every street in USA that is named after Martin Luther King (peaceful protester and motivator) the most crime ridden?

Name: preacherswifekgh

Comment: I 100% agree with allaboutlydia. Touch26 you seem angry and uninformed about the message that Bill Cosby puts out there for his audiences. Quit hating and perhaps it would be a wise thing for you to check out one of his shows, then come back with honest and well rounded feedback vs. rhetoric about "dirty laundry".

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