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Article: The Cosby Show; Lexington.(Bill Cosby and black America)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- July 10, 2004
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A comedian with a message that is worth listening to
BILL COSBY has had it up to here with black street culture. "Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2.30pm every day, it's cursing and calling each other nigger," he recently told a group of black leaders. "They think they're hip. They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere." The man who is arguably America's most admired black entertainer has turned from the long-suffering dad in "The Cosby Show" into a searing social critic. He dislikes entertainers who play to black stereotypes. He dislikes black street slang ("You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap ...