Cosby’s blame of poor Black parents sparked prominent rebuttals

Evidence

Bill Cosby took his racist ideas on the road, causing a rash of debates between racists and antiracists. Sociologist Michael Eric Dyson shot back, knocking Cosby down from his high horse in his acclaimed 2005 book, Is Bill Cosby Right? Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind? “All the self-help in the world will not eliminate poverty or create the number of good jobs needed to employ the African American community,” historian Robin D.G. Kelley added. — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1190

Categorization

• XREF: Kelley’s line embodies the antiracist structural rebuttal that the reader is building to place any argument — policy/structure, not individual behavior, explains outcomes. — connects to: Obama’s 2004 keynote echoed Cosby’s blame-the-poor message while rebuking him — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1191; Black poverty was blamed on Black behavior rather than housing discrimination — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 451; Even prominent Democratic officials blamed black families for education gaps — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 305 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Obama’s 2004 keynote echoed Cosby’s blame-the-poor message while rebuking him — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 1191; Black poverty was blamed on Black behavior rather than housing discrimination — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning: The…, 451; Even prominent Democratic officials blamed black families for education gaps — Dorothy A. Brown, The Whiteness of Wealth: How the Tax…, 305 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Obama’s 2004 keynote echoed Cosby’s blame-the-poor message while rebuking him #expands (0.92) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 1191