Bill Cosby: "I agree with President Carter"

[jefferson_dem]

For whatever it's worth -

I agree with President Carter that racism is playing a role in recent outbursts against President Obama.

http://twitter.com/BillCosby/status/4040350046

[my2sense]

1. Ray Charles could see that n/t

[Lilyeye]

7. Stevie Wonder too!

[Cha]

8. So true and glad everyone is pointiing it out

except the White House of course who is staying out of the fray as well they should.

Obama didn't want race to enter into it during the primary or general campaign and nothing's changed on that issue.

[av8rdave]

2. I agree with President Carter as well

It's glaringly obvious to me.

[msallied]

3. For a minute I thought I read Bill Clinton. lol

[Arugula Latte]

4. I'm actually surprised Bill Cosby said that.

Good for him.

[BlooInBloo]

9. So am I.

[BootinUp]

me three. nt

[Deja Q]

5. It's worth a lot.

Cosby may have dropped out of college, but so have many other famous people. And unlike half of them, Cosby seems sincere.

[LiberalAndProud]

15. B.A., M.A., Ph.D. = dropped out of college.

What are you talking about?

[Kutjara]

27. Actually you're both right.

Cosby first dropped out of 10th grade and got a job to help support his family. He then joined the Navy and got his high school equivalency qualification.

Later, Cosby won a scholarship to a college in Philadelphia, but again dropped out, this time to pursue his career in comedy.

He returned to college in the 1970s, finally achieving an Ed.D (Doctor of Education) degree.

[PretzelWarrior]

21. you are full of shit. he's got far more education than you.

[BlooInBloo]

6. Doh! That's GOTTA hurt the racism enablers and deniers! The Cos is usually on their side!

Ah, who am I kidding - they'll just say "another oversensitive black reverse racist playing the race card".

[PretzelWarrior]

11. Cosby is with Carter and Obama. Obama calls Kanye a jackass....

not looking good for the racism enablers. lolol.

[BlooInBloo]

13. And more white folks are (finally) speaking out against it...

We're the only ones who can stop it.

[Bluerthanblue]

19. I agree

with both your statements.

[noiretextatique]

23. that would make them hypocrites

because they certainly agreed with him when he was losing his fng mind.

[PretzelWarrior]

24. how was he losing his mind? What he said was valid back then. just maybe not what people

wanted to hear.

[noiretextatique]

28. valid to whom?

the well-healed folks's who attend NAACP dinners who felt exempt from cosby's racist diatribe...or the people he was talking ABOUT? the people he was talking probably can't afford to attend NAACP dinners. i will give him credit for putting his money, time, and effort where he put his big mouth when he actually started talking to the people he was talking about at NAACP dinners.

[BlooInBloo]

25. O right. Racism deniers and enablers are NEVER hypocrites. I forgot.

[CakeGrrl]

10. Good. Hopefully other high-profile personalities will go public with their agreement, n/t

[Lilyeye]

12. I am surprised he did.

This is the same man who recently told a group of kids at an inner city school to basically "shut up and get over" not having funding to continue their music and arts programs.

[PretzelWarrior]

16. which is why his voice is all the more credible to "mainstream" America (white)

it is important that Cosby and Obama share a certain unwillingness to watch silently as black communities put on the victim hat. I'm not saying they haven't been victimized...but it's better for a person or group to forge ahead and let OTHERS point out how they've been victimized than for that person or group to use it as an excuse.

So.....I'm happy Cosby has taken absent black fathers to task and tried to convince black youth that not everything is an entitlement--and now he uses that credibility to say "YES, indeed...there is much racism bubbling to the surface and it is a major component of the irrational opposition by disgruntled stupid white people with guns."

[SIMPLYB1980]

14. Bill Cosby lands the right hook.

Down goes the GOP! Down goes the GOP! Down goes the GOP!

[Drunken Irishman]

17. That is a surprise. Good for Cosby!

[alcibiades_mystery]

18. Ouch...that's got to hurt the conservatives who've been using Cosby's critique

of black culture as some kind of crutch for their own racism.

[BlooInBloo]

20. Oh yah - hurts them too.

[noiretextatique]

22. well, well, well...that should settle it

now that white folks' favorite black guy has spoken

[AspenRose]

26. I'm shocked.

[Bluenorthwest]

29. Well that should settle that

And good for Bill.