Bill Cosby, not known for his conservative views, talks straight at an NAACP event and the amazing thing is the response of those listening. While the audience apparently acknowledged the correctness of his observations of the problems in the black community, leadership immediately began downplaying and take issue with Cosby's statements.
Why is it black leadership refuses to recognize the endemic problems among many in their costituency. Perhaps they don't want to. To acknowledge the problem exists within "me" requires that "I" take responsibility for it. Why be responsible when I can be a victim. For the liberal politician (that includes those who are not elected but selected), victimhood means power.
If these leaders can convince their constituency they are powerless victims and they cannot help themselves, the power, and the money, is vested in the leaders.

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I have to admit I came out pretty strong when the Abu Ghraib abuse scandal broke. While I am still upset that the activities there reflect wrongly on America and our military, in retrospect I do not think those abuses will be cause for increased violence against Americans. Yes, it will be used as an excuse for such terrorist acts, as in the Nick Berg atrocity, but those who hate us, will not hate us more. They cannot.
It didn't take an Abu Ghraib to instigate the suicide crashes into the Twin Towers, the Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field. It didn't take Abu Ghraib to incite the beheading of Daniel Pearl. It didn't take Abu Ghraib to provoke the Bali nightclub bombing, the Madrid train bombings, the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. The Cole, the multiple attempted infiltrations of US borders by terrorists that have, so far, been thwarted by the border patrol and law enforcement.
No, Abu Ghraib didn't motivate the Berg barbarity, al Qaida doesn't need reason to act. They already have their own reason, the hate us. Any other motivation given is merely an excuse.

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