Did you know Bill Cosby is releasing a rap album titled Bill Cosby Presents the Cosnarati: State of Emergency, which focuses on issues pertaining to today's youth. In a post on Global Grind, Russell Simmons wrote an open letter to Bill Cosby titled, Bill Cosby, The Face of Intolerance?
Here's an excerpt:
There are a lot of great entertainers who do great things. Bill Cosby is one of them. He has always used his voice to right what he thought was wrong. However, I believe that too often Mr. Cosby has wrongly placed the blame.
Bill Cosby is an example of someone from the older generation who has consistently blamed the poets and asked suffering community members to bare the full burden of guilt for the struggles that they endure. It is certainly not that he and the rest of the elders don't care, because they do. In fact, their intentions are pure and good. All the things they say are actually true. What they don’t understand is that the young people who they criticize did not create their own realities. They did not create the crumbling education system that we school them in. They did not create the drug epidemic and drug wars that have resulted in a dysfunctional family structure. They did not create the health care crisis that does not treat them. They did not create the culture of violence that they fall victim to.
