AS SEEN ON TV: BILL COSBY

Two For Tuesday.....
AS SEEN ON:
'Saturday Night Live'

AS PLAYED BY:
Kenan Thompson

From the News-Journal:
Cosby has taken a lot of criticism from many black Americans since his tough-love book, "Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors," was published in 2007.

He said his critics either don't understand, or don't want to admit, that all he's doing is not stating the obvious: Systemic racism against blacks in America still exists.

In an interview before his presentation, he made the point that it doesn't do anyone any good to wait for racism to end -- since it probably never will -- and that black Americans have to move forward in spite of discriminatory obstacles they face every day.

"Some people seem to use the fact that racism exists to create an inertia of entropy," he said. "Some 'poverty pimps' want us to not move to become unstuck."

Since his book came out, Cosby has been criticized by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and author and professor Michael Eric Dyson.

Cosby said Simmons dismisses him as being out of touch with nothing to say to today's youth. But, Cosby says, it's Simmons who is hurting today's black youth by glamorizing street violence in rap songs that have made him millions of dollars but have wreaked havoc in cities across America.
AS SEEN ON:
'MadTV'

AS PLAYED BY:
Aries Spears

BCnU!