Bill Cosby Doesn't Care About Black People

I was watching Chapelle Show: THE LOST EPISODE,in particular the pixie sketch, where Dave portrays a bunch of racial pixies trying to get people to embrace stereotypes. Dave Chapelle didn't want the show aired, and after seeing I can definitely see why. Though entertaining and funny, I can see how this kind of thing could be reinforcing stereotypes. Watching Chapelle Show has DEFINITELY opened my eyes and widen my library of stereotypes, for the worst. Stereotypes and racism is definitely learned and perpetuated through the culture. I respect Dave Chapelle for staying true to himself and trying to be a symbol of positivity in the Black community. There are allot of people who say Dave is tripping for passing up 50 million dollars to take the moral high road, but I guess these are the same people who say Bill Cosby is tripping for dissing Hip Hop Culture, which itself is another destructive force in the Black Community.

But there are some who feels there is absolutely no problem in entertainment that represents these negative images for the sake of entertainment. But once is satire and a joke becomes accepted truth. Like if you look at typical stand up Black comedians they will all tell the same jokes. For example, the stereotype that Black people have bad credit. Growing up I would always hear it, and never really understood what it really meant, and never really developed an education and respect for credit. But as I got older I later discovered that CREDIT is one the most important things in our society that should be respected! It's deciding factor in buying a house, a car, student loans. opening a business. GOOD CREDIT = POWER. But growing up watching Black Entertainment, you'd think that being black with bad credit was an inevitable fate that colored are doom too. This is not true. But it's an accepted stereotypical, truism in Black Culture perpetuated through Black Entertainment.

If anyone speaks about this, or turns down a 50 million dollar contract are shunned and accused of being a uppity negro. There is a double standard for educated blacks. No one cares if a ignorant rapper degrades African Americans on their album by calling them a nigger and threatening them with violence. Some of these rappers are putting in more work than the Klan when it comes to promoting negativity and coondom of Blacks, but no one checks them.The youth better take heed to Dr.Cosby's words There are issues we face that can not be addressed in the scope of hip-hop but allot of blacks won't listen to anything else!

Since when did Hip Hop Culture become the embodiment of blackness? If hip-hop died tomorrow, most blacks would not know how to act because they don't know anywhere else to get their rules of blackness from. Hip-hop has done great things, but why do we (black people) expected hip-hop to be our teacher, or the focal point of our Identity? I desperately do want to see change in the black community. I think hip-hop can help. I don't think hip-hop must bring it. I'm comfortable exploring other things because my "blackness" ain't molded or taught to me by hip-hop.