[dead]

Ta-Nehisi can really be a fun read sometimes.

[zook]

Yeah, like a Nazi.
Cosby was absolutely right and I've heard no evidence of backtracking on his part; quite the contrary.

[Redcoat LI]

"Coz lampooned blacks for giving their kids weird names like ....Ta-Nehisi Coates"

[jtminton]

There were no toilets in the Huxtable home

I'm pretty sure. I remember the episode where Rudy's goldfish died. They flushed it down the toilet. But then again, every sitcom had that happen, so I could be confused.

[whodat57]

"But if we could just pay attention in school, stop stealing, learn proper English, and correctly apply deodorant, we'd be all right. "


There's a thought.

[Red Badger]

...wierd names....like Ta-Nehisi............

[motor_racer]

bump for later

[FormerLib]

when Cosby ventured down to Washington and ripped into the have-nots among us...
The comedian launched into a relentless attack on poor and working-class African Americans...

Actually Ta-Nehisi (Geshundeit!), he lampooned socially irresponsible people who won't ever bother to try to improve themselves. While it is true that he went after those within his own ethnic group, his speech could have easily have been directed at certain area of Appalachia with only minor modifications.

[Trillian]

It's about time.

[agrarianlady]

Morality becomes the answer when you don't have another one.

Morality is a pretty good answer.

[SpinnerWebb]

Are paying attention in school, stopping stealing, and learning proper English such far-reaching goals?!?!?

[CaptRon]

Yeah. I try never to miss a Tan...Ta-Neal...Ta-Nz...one of her/his articles.

[BenLurkin]

"The fact was, the Oakland School Board never planned to "teach" Ebonics. They actually planned to teach proper English to young kids using Ebonics."

Who does Ta-Heshe think he/she is? John Flopping Kerrry?

[Just another Joe]

Sorry, dead, on this one Cosby is more right than wrong. This article isn't a rant on racism. It's a dig on Cosby.

Ta-Nehisi said it, "But if we could just pay attention in school, stop stealing, learn proper English, and correctly apply deodorant, we'd be all right."
The first and third points are crucial. The last point may not be crucial but have you ever landed a job smelling like you haven't had a bath for four days? The second point pretty much goes away when the others have been met.

[Pikamax]

wonderful, now the idiots are trying to say that Cosby is wrong and he is just saying these things to make himself feel good.

[rockrr]

"Ta-Nehisi can really be a fun read sometimes."

Well, he/she/it said one thing correctly - he/she/it doesn't get it....

[Grim]

But over the past couple of decades, he's played one ugly role that his activist friends like to ignore—patron saint of black elitists.

So speaking proper english is "elitist?" Coz is right and Ta-Nehisi Coates is exactly the 'knucklehead' he was talking about.

[mountaineer]

At last year's Emmys, Wanda Sykes asked Cosby what accounted for his success and that of other early black comics. Cosby, clearly annoyed with the demonstrative Sykes, fixed her with an ice-grill and said, "We spoke English."

I like Wanda, but the Cos is right on target. Anyone - black, white, brown, whatever - who refuses to speak and write properly (apart from pro athletes and rappers, of course) - has a very slim chance of success in this world. It's really not so hard to learn and apply proper English.

[jonascord]

patron saint of black elitists.

Is a "black elitist" anyone who happens to be black AND dresses like a human being, rather than a gangsta? I've seen many a white kid dressed like some kind of parody of a Crip or Blood. I never had any respect for them. In fact, they look silly. I guess I'm a white elitist snob.

[bmwcyle]

There is always Eddie Murphy's bit about using breakfast cereals for black girl names.

[opus86]

Pretty sad. A successful black man is called an elitist because he prescribes fundamental tools for success. Truth hurts, doesn't it Ta-Nehisi?