Looks like Bill Cosby's mad as hell, and he's not taking it anymore:

Bill Cosby went off on another tirade against the black community Thursday, telling a room full of activists that black children are running around not knowing how to read or write and "going nowhere."
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Cosby also said many young people are failing to honor the sacrifices made by those who struggled and died during the civil rights movement.

"Dogs, water hoses that tear the bark off trees, Emmett Till," he said, naming the black youth who was tortured and murdered in Mississippi in 1955, allegedly for whistling at a white woman. "And you're going to tell me you're going to drop out of school? You're going to tell me you're going to steal from a store?"

Finally someone famous enough to be heard with bona-fides (and money) enough to be listened to is stepping up. Liberal wailing and tearing of shirts in 3... 2... 1...

Let's posit for the sake of argument that the Republican party is composed of rich fundamentalist bigots. What's important to realize is this is not an end state. Change the people, change the party. Whichever party figures out free markets, rule of law, and unintrusive government is what most people want first will be the party that rules the country for the next twenty years. Looking around, I only see one that even comes close.

Time to change the people*.

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* Note to the peanut gallery: "changing the people" does not mean "putting people who want to take my money 'for the common good'" in charge. While working for change, I'd much rather the country be run by people who want to change what some of us do than by people who want to change what most of us think.