From an interview with ChristianPost.com…FULL STORY HERE.
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CP: You grew up in an era where discrimination against African Americans was common. Has that changed?
Cosby: It hasn’t really changed. I think the part of media that romanticizes criminal behavior, things that a person will say against women, profanity, being gangster, having multiple children with multiple men and women and not wanting to is prevalent. When you look at the majority of shows on television they placate that kind of behavior. If you go through a weekly Monday through Friday, it’s all there. It’s in how people on the sitcoms and cop shows talk to each other.
There should be more on television that uplifts people and shows them how to better prepare themselves for earning a living. There still aren’t enough people that say “this should not be.” We just let it go. We need to raise a loud voice about our fellow human beings.
CP: You’ve often cited education as a way of overcoming obstacles like racism and poverty. How did it help you?
Cosby: My freshman year of college at Temple University I was in remedial English. A professor asked that we write a composition about the first time we ever did something. I was 23-years-old and had just come out of the Navy. I had also scored 500 on the SAT. I was the happiest remedial person in the world.
I wanted to write something I thoroughly enjoyed for the first time in my life. I decided to write about the first time I lost a tooth and it was exciting writing about how I went back and forth to the mirror and the pain and the nervousness and all that. My professor passed everything back two weeks later and kept mine so that he could read it to the class. I was floored. I had no idea at the time it would lead to the man you’re talking to now. I then found the more I was drifting towards writing and thinking the more I found I wanted to write and think.
CP: I understand you’re a dedicated football fan and I recently saw a video of you encouraging Tim Tebow as he encounters public criticism. Why do you like him?
Cosby: I like what’s happening in Denver. The beauty of what I see is that Tebow speaks his mind. When we look at the settling of this country we see a Bible in hand and God. Every Thanksgiving has God and the peacefulness of gratitude. It was important when the Twin Towers were hit and the sorrow with them that the first thing Congress did was sing “God Bless America.”
There are thus people in the media and business who after an athlete does something will give them a bum rush. Mr. Tebow is someone who the media has picked on. ESPN found all sorts of athletes and experts to say this young man is not a good football player and that the other starting quarterback is better. They said his footwork is awful and that he is a freak or something that couldn’t play at all. People are Tebowing, Tebowing and Tebowing but Tebow won’t allow people to focus on what he has done and has not done. He just states the glory of being out there and the privilege of playing. He tells them how his team plays and succeeds and the way he does it is almost biblical.
There are stories in the Bible about people telling other people how to do things. When you hear this young man say “we don’t give up,” that’s something human beings who win will tell you every time. Breaks will happen. When they happen, you keep the same mind about what you’re doing. It’s about we the people getting on with our lives and doing it that way.
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