On the Path from Victims to Victors - Come On

This book presents eye-popping stats that will move your emotions. The title should read "Come On People...Let's Get It Right" You'll become enlightened and begin your walk to victory. I admire Cosby's courage to address this trying issue.

How refreshing to see someone talk of EMPOWERMENT instead of VICTIMHOOD!? I have always believed in one of the central messages in this book and am so pleased someone is brave enough to put it on paper: Set high expectations for our children because that is the only way they'll realize their own power! Set the bar low and you'll reap what you sow!

I watched Meet The Press last Sunday morning. It was one of the best television programs that I saw in a long while. I did appreciate the the candid remarks by Bill Cosby and Dr. Alvin Poussaint. I shared my comments with others and immediately bought the book.

Bill Cosby is an American hero for taking the stands that he does in a world awash in stupidity and mediocrity. Books like his or "Sarah Conrad of Eagle Creek" are needed today. God bless his efforts.

What's missing from all this is the primary nurturers aren't held accountable, and show no compassion on their vlogs, talk shows,
books and YouTube videos!
Black women have been conditioned in slavery for hundreds of years
to watch Black boys fail! Not only to watch them fail but to assist
in the emasculation of their male children.
The Willie Lynch Letter states: "She will watch for us...".
We can look to government and psychologists, but until we deal with the childs FIRST teacher we are just wasting time while the problem gets worse.
Black women are talking about being empowered in every way these days,
every way except one......that's raising the smartest emotionally healthy
boys in the world!
They are on a sexist you go gurl destiny that leaves their male children
out. Just like the slavemassah designed it to be. Peace

I read this book hoping to find some inspiring nuggets and all I got was an eight grade thesis. Sorry Bill; hope your profits from this book are doing some good because the book is not. I would hope you would give the black community more credit than you have. I think they need more than common sense advise; which is plentiful in this book. Hope you try again.

Honestly, who better than to speak these far too often forgot truths than Bill Cosby. One of the greatest examples of proud, intelligent, respectable, and honorable black men in the last half century.

Black people (especially those with mindsets to the likes of Jackson, Sharpton, and other racist, whinney, lazy losers) who come to believe that the reason why they're in jail, behind in eduation, a single parent, under fire or under arrest for that matter is due only to the mass imbalance in public treatment of race need to wake up and get their s"""t together. Yes, raciail prejudices exist, yes there are racist deushes out there who are stuck in the 40s and judge people according to their skin, and yes, some of them are in public office and law positions. However, that is no excuse for you to sit around playing X-Box, ripping off the hard working decent Middle Easterns at 711 eating and feeding MacDonalds to your kids 3 times a day and then blaming the schools for not teaching health nutrition, or the blaming the white cop who happens to catch you doing 95 in a 30 in your suped up SUV.
You have to make priorities and take some accountability for your actions. And this is not a message just for black people, for remember back in the 50s-70s where black people where among the hardest working Americans because they knew they had to in order to get by. Obviously, I'm glad times have changed and I think we as a society have progressed, but too many of us (Jews, blacks, gays, whites, Hispanics, etc.) are quick to pull a race/religion card everytime we don't get what we want, someone says something we don't like, or things in life just overly don't turn out the way we had them planned in our tiny little self-indulgent, close minded out of touch minds.

Sharpton, Jackson...etc....Cosby and respectable Black Americans such as him are onto something and will expose you for the perverted racial pimps that you are who never want to admit that maybe...just maybe you and those like you are products of environment, home life, life style, and your own undeveloped and retarded sense of duty, American pride, and personal responsibility

I am neither surprised nor annoyed, as many African Americans are, by Drs Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint's most recent work, a charade before America. In fact, I am empathetic to them both.

My inclination is that their antagonist, the black underclass, particularly its men, are their targets. Helping the underclass to uplift itself is a good thing. Helping the underclass to get rid of itself, as an underclass, is even better.

Is this what Cosby and Poussaint are seeking to do?

If we understand that poor black men are the Cosby-Poussaint's antagonistic opposites then we should not have any real trouble getting to the bottom of what Psychologists Cosby and Poussaint are trying to accomplish with their new book and their parade across America.

First, consistent with the values of their elite peers, both men are out to get more wealth, more property. They cannot help this crave. It is the disease by which they preserve their wealth, power and status in our ailing society. Like the drug addict's urge for more drugs, they fix their itch, thereby compounding the disorder.

Second, their work is as much about fixing their own blight, as it is with coming to grips with the problem of the black underclass. Both Cosby and Poussaint are aware that the black under class, their opposite, is preserved in society by the wealth and status of Cosby and Poussaints own class. The black underclass could not exist without the likes of Cosby and Poussaint, neither could Cosby and Poussaint exist without the Black underclass. For both to exist, they need each other--much more than a lover needs his or her spouse. The lovers can exist without each other. Not so with Cosby-Poussaint and the black underclass.

The black underclass desires not to exist. It seeks to rid itself of its opposite, in order to cease its own existence.

The Cosby-Poussaint's class desires its own existence and so must preserve itself by preserving the black underclass.

As great philanthropists, Cosby-Poussaint wish that they could preserve their status, without the existence of the black underclass. So, they now realize that they are trapped in an antagonistic relationship of opposites from which they cannot be freed, while preserving their own existence.

Third, Cosby and Poussaint are seeking a solution for their own alienated condition and not that of their opposite.

As psychologists they believe that their problem is a mental disorder and not one defined by the relationship of classes in capitalist society. By analyzing and attacking their opposite, the black underclass, they are analyzing and attacking their own problem of self-alienation.

"In its economic movement, it is true, private property presses towards its own dissolution," (Marx).

Thus, I commend Cosby and Poussaint, wholeheartedly, for their work and do pray that in their opposite, the black underclass, they will find and implement the solution to their own alienated state of existence.

See also:

In-Dependence from Bondage: Claude McKay and Michael Manley: Defying the Ideological Clash and Policy Gaps in African Diaspora Relations

Black Bourgeoisie: The Book That Brought the Shock of Self-Revelation to Middle-Class Blacks in America

Go back to HIllman, Dr. Huxtable, because it's obvious you needs some education. That spaghetti sauce is clearly not yours and everyone knows you sneak hoagies at every opportunity, despite your health issues. By the way, Theo looks great with that earring.