Bill Cosby has his own values crusade going, and it's catching on in much of black America. When Cosby endorses academic achievement, discipline and parental involvement, he's supporting the traditional values to which many black Americans-in red states or blue-can relate. You might be surprised to hear this, but there is little controversy over Cosby's rhetoric. A few fringe academics and left-wing scribes have attacked him, but the has drawn broad support including from such civil rights activists as NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. Perhaps that's because Cosby's wisdom is self-evident. Like so many others, I support Cosby's crusade. I'd just like to add one small item to his agenda: marriage. I'd like to hear him-in the plain and unadorned language for which he has become known-urge black men and women to get married…
--Cynthia Tucker, "Cosby Should Add Marriage to the Agenda".
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