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"Without judgment and reprimand," this one statement from your hate mongering diatribe is pure idiocy. In the real world, judgments are what separate cultures, religions, individuals, and societies. In the real world, actions have consequences and sometimes reprimand is the consequence of action. Case in point, you made a judgment about Cosby's stand that education matters, and that family matters and you didn't like the way he said it so you decide to reprimand Cosby for speaking freely to some of the people that are the most responsible for the black communities problems. Or, do you disagree with Cosby's position that family and education matter? Cosby is a comedian. It's not unheard of for a comedian to shock an audience for effect.

p>Perhaps one day you might actually take the opportunity to educate yourself about poverty and its causes. Perhaps, but not likely. br> -- rw /p>

I could start with Mr. izrael's ignorance of or refusal to adhere to the rules for capitalizing proper names. Rather than take up a lot of space, may I simply say that jimi izrael is a prime and sufficient example of exactly why Bill Cosby was absolutely right in his recent remarks regarding black society and parenting. The only real shame is that there are so exceedingly few black folk of achievement willing to stand up for education, morality, and playing by American rules instead of black urban ghetto rules.

p>I know that I live in an almost totally white state, but I was born and raised and lived many years one block from Washington D. C. in Maryland, so I do know a little about the subject of this letter. br> -- Ken Shreve br> New Hampshire /p>

An interesting viewpoint, but I have to ask, are you more upset at the messenger or the message? Forget Cosby for a moment, was his message a fair but foreboding truth? If it was, then a reassessment is in order.

When fresh out of college I taught math at an inner city high school for a year, Camden High in Camden, NJ. It was 1982. Here was the environment those kids were under:

p>* Armed guards, 2 to a floor inside the school. 4 outside the grounds. br> * Mostly Black, Hispanic, Oriental. There were less than a dozen whites in the whole school.

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