Acton.org | Anthony B. Bradley | October 24, 2007
Bill Cosby’s status as sage is confirmed by the release of his new book, co-authored with Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard Medical School, Come On People: On The Path From Victims to Victors. Cosby and Poussaint remind us that black America’s hope for escape from abysmal self-destruction is moral formation — not government programs or blaming white people.
This book will arouse needed controversy as it challenges the victim mentality often promulgated by men like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Michael Eric Dyson, and other black liberal elites. Cosby and Poussaint are direct, candid, and engender a spirit of urgency. We need to put silly racial politics aside and concentrate on the real reasons that black America is hemorrhaging.
Cosby and Poussaint open with the $64,000 question: “What’s Going On With Black Men?” Without strong black men, they argue, the black community will continue to decompose. In 1950, five out of every six black children were born into a two-parent family and today that number is less than two out of six. Irresponsible men and fatherlessness have destroyed for many of us any hope of achieving Dr. King’s dream. White people do not make black men father children outside of marriage.
“A house without a father is a challenge. A neighborhood without fathers is a catastrophe,” the authors note. Most black boys are never morally formed into manhood by virtuous men and many end up in jail because of it. Ninety-four percent of all blacks are murdered are killed by other blacks. For many blacks, a Klu Klux Klan rally is a safer place than their own neighborhoods.
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note 48:
Jamesk, back for more “debate” I see. As we have already been over this several times – and your post is simply a restatement of your confusion, why don’t you try flame baiting somewhere else?? Or even better, why don’t you actually try to understand what it is you are “debating”? Clark Carlson’s “The Faith” is a good place to start to try to get the basics about Orthodoxy, or “Mere Christianity” or something by C.S Lewis might help you understand Christianity in a more general sense. Until you get a basic sense of Christianity, you will never understand the immorality of Terri’s death. Until you get a sense of what it means to be human, you will not be able to see the inhumanity of her “husband” {bracketed of course because Christianly, he was no longer her husband} and your sincere attempt to take Terri’s humanity away from her…
Christopher, you asked me awhile back why I continued to engage JamesK and essentially ordered my to stop. I took your advice. Maybe you ought to consider it for youself.
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Good point Michael! I think I will abstain from reading their posts for at least a couple of weeks – it really is futile…