04-29-2008, 10:10 PM
Much of it illustrates common values. But this is an example of something different than Dr Cosby's message:
"Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control."
Not only does Cosby support rebuilding a strong black middle class, with no apologies for having this aspiration (like any other hard-working American) we don't see Cosby's speech contaminated with legacy "master/slave captor/subjugated" language. Maybe literary inventions like "Middleclassness" and phrases like "methodology on control of captives" goes over well in Humanites Department lounges, or Post-Colonial Studies programs at Spellman or Harvard, but Cosby came of age prior to the 1980s, before the official language of victimhood had been codified.
"Disavowal of the Pursuit of “Middleclassness.” Classic methodology on control of captives teaches that captors must be able to identify the “talented tenth” of those subjugated, especially those who show promise of providing the kind of leadership that might threaten the captor’s control."
Not only does Cosby support rebuilding a strong black middle class, with no apologies for having this aspiration (like any other hard-working American) we don't see Cosby's speech contaminated with legacy "master/slave captor/subjugated" language. Maybe literary inventions like "Middleclassness" and phrases like "methodology on control of captives" goes over well in Humanites Department lounges, or Post-Colonial Studies programs at Spellman or Harvard, but Cosby came of age prior to the 1980s, before the official language of victimhood had been codified.