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Personal Responsibility

People love to blame others for their woes. That seems to come naturally. And historically, blame can be placed on bigotry and prejudice. But there comes a time when some personal responsibility is necessary too. Comedian Bill Cosby is imploring Black People to do just that. He did it last May, and he's just done it again:

He also had harsh words for struggling black men, telling them: "Stop beating up your women because you can't find a job."

Cosby made headlines in May when he upbraided some poor blacks for their grammar and accused them of squandering opportunities the civil rights movement gave them. He shot back Thursday, saying his detractors were trying in vain to hide the black community's "dirty laundry."

"Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day, it's cursing and calling each other n------ as they're walking up and down the street," Cosby said during an appearance at the Rainbow/PUSH Coalition & Citizenship Education Fund's annual conference.

"They think they're hip," the entertainer said. "They can't read; they can't write. They're laughing and giggling, and they're going nowhere."

You can go to plenty of poor white communities where the fault always seems to lie elsewhere. Workers laid-off who themselves bought only cheap imports. Who shack-up without assuming responsibility for any children produced. Or they blame immigrants who are willing to take the hard jobs at low pay that others aren't.

The gay community could use a Bill Cosby too. After all these years and with what we now know, according to the CDC, there are still a LOT of gays having anonymous, unprotected sex in areas such as San Francisco, where AIDs cases are again rising.

The "left" could use a Cosby. The "right" could use a Cosby. And all these people rushing off to trial lawyers to win the litigation lottery could use a Cosby.

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Update: The Hobbesian Conservative has more.