Complicity of African-Americans in Contemporary Research Proposal

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He reminds the black community the case of Brown vs. The Board of Education and what the blacks back then fought for. He considers the basic elements in terms of family and community values, like mutual respect, the awareness than only a better education can get one of the misery and denounces their loss among other values the working classes of the black community adopted to its own disadvantage. Bill Cosby blames exclusively the way of living adopted by the working black people for their poor situation and oppression.

Such ideas like those expressed in the above mentioned book are destined to raise controversies and even violent attacks. One such reaction is that expressed by Michael Erik Dyson in his book Is Bill Cosby Right? (or Has the Black Middle Class Lost its Mind?) Dyson takes every argument Cosby used to denounce the passive behavior of the lower black classes and intends to prove that as long as there is any thuth in Cosby's allegations then there is also truth in a statement indicating that the middle class black community has lost its mind when it comes to tackling the oppression of the working class black people.

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Dyson calls the former "Gehttocracy" and the latter "Afristocracy" nd exposes their flaws from within, but also their faults in dealing with one another.

He claims that the middle class of the black community, which he underlines, is "our community," has forgotten the meaning of basic notions as fraternity and compassion and therefore its support for the most vulnerable has increasingly diminished. Although Dyson emphasizes that he does not accuse Cosby of having betrayed his own race, he accuses his attempts to denounce the lack of morality of being single sided and lacking compassion.

Cosby, Bill. Poussaint, Alvin F. Come on People. On the Path from Victims to Victors. Thomas Nelson 2007.

Dyson, Michael Eric. Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? Basic Civitas Books, 2005.

Statement from the Brokaw Company: Bill Cosby Responds to Media Criticism. SOURCE the Brokaw Company. PR Newswire Association LLC. 1996-2008. Retrieved: Dec. 19, 2008. Available at http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/05-22-2004/0002179697&EDATE.....

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