By Kenneth Carroll
I am totally confused on this issue. How could anyone, black or white, object to the message Bill Cosby is presenting?

I see a common theme; if a black man, or woman, becomes successful; they suddenly are not "black enough". I was talking to one of my former high school classmates (who is black), and she was telling me why she believed the story about Condoleezza Rice sleeping with President Bush. She explained to me, how else could a black woman reach the heights she had reached, unless she was sleeping with the master?

I was stunned. I would have thought my friend would have been defending Rice against the untruths and slams against Rice. My friend went on to explain that Blacks resent other Blacks when they make it to the "Big House" and they are left in the fields.

It is pretty obvious to me that as long as Blacks look up to gangsters and drug dealers -- "the players" -- and put down successful blacks that have pulled themselves to the top, there will never be reform in the black neighborhoods. As long as they cheer on the "LOSERS" and boo the "WINNERS" who is going to want to become booed? They are even clamoring that Obama is not black enough, and his popularity is beginning to fall.

The sooner black leaders support the message Bill Cosby is bringing forth, the sooner racial equality is going to be realized. As long as Blacks listen to the messages of Sharpton, Jackson, and other gangsters, the longer they will be entrenched in the ghetto lifestyle.

Even if a gangsters got nominated to run for president, as soon as he agreed he would live in the "Big House" he would then be considered "not black enough" and he would be ostracized from the black community.