In These Times

It seems to me to be totally rational to both: 1) understand that the tragedy of urban America owes it's nihilism and poverty to our country's historic abuse of black humans (slavery, Jim Crow, latent institutional bias) and thus requires sweeping, multi-tiered action on all levels of our elected government(s) and by our cultural icons to remedy, and 2) Hold parents responsible for the upbringing of their children. I fail to see a moral paradox in Cosby "calling out" the parents who let their children down in ways which now ache with cliche (teen pregnancy, absent/incarcerated fathers, cultivating values of violence …

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