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Walter E. Williams: The Cos again: "Bill Cosby also admonished blacks to stop blaming the white man for our problems. 'This is a time, ladies and gentlemen,' Cosby said, 'when we have to turn the mirror around.' He's right again. Nobody can sensibly argue that racial discrimination has altogether disappeared. The relevant question is: How much of what we see can be explained by racial discrimination? The 70 percent illegitimacy rate among blacks is devastating, not to mention unprecedented, but can it be blamed on discrimination? Is the white man responsible for today's all-time high number of black single-parent families? What about the crime rate that has turned many black neighborhoods, once stable and civilized, into battlegrounds and economic wastelands?

Cosby also talked about a pathological culture that has emerged among many blacks referring to one another as 'niggers' and music that refers to black women as 'bitches' and 'whores.' Added to that pathology are the verbal and physical reprisals against blacks who speak and carry themselves properly and seek to excel academically. I'd sure like to hear the argument for the case where hard work and academic excellence make one a race traitor -- acting white. "