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Article: Sinbad: 'Let's hear it for Black men'; comedian leads national crusade against bum rap 'male-bashing.'
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- Ebony
- Article date:
- April 1, 1990
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SINBAD
THEY'VE been analyzed, dissected, computerized, and psychoanalyzed. Bashing them has become a national obsession. Some people say they're endangered. Others say they're irresponsible. Still others say they bear a heavier load than any other group in American society.
But no matter what people say, everybody has a strong opinion about them. And when they're discussed, people tend to scream, shout, curse, and cry.
"They," of course, are members of that species called Black men. And now, they have an unusual champion in comedian Sinbad, co-star of the hit NBC comedy A Different World. In many of his comedy routines, the 33-year-old ...