Looks Like Cosby's Son-In-Law Also Has Something to Say

Finally we are starting to see the inkling of a in-house/internal movement...perhaps. The reasoning behind my initial statement is that I am starting to see more books, Juan Williams' Enough comes to mind, that speaks of Black pathologies from a non-victim, self-critical methodology. One book that I have just read, He Talk Like A White Boy, written by Joseph C. Phillips, is also thematically in the same vein as the Williams' piece. You may remember Phillips as the actor that portrayed Lisa Bonet's military husband (Lt. Martin Kendall) on the Cosby Show for four seasons. Reading White Boy was basically a hard copy version of my blog.

Phillips' notes that his book's title is derived from a real life school experience in which a fellow African-American student exclaimed "he talk like a White boy" when he attempted to answer a question in a classroom situation. That incident stuck with Phillips and has been a barometer for additional experiences throughout his life. I do not agree with everything that Phillips has written-i.e being a supporter and some would say an apologist for the Bush administration, but his dead-on analysis of some of the self-perpetuating conditions running rampant in the Black community can not be ignored.

I believe in a Black conservative movement, I just don't believe the neo-cons running this current administration are upholding the true tenets of conservatism. Phillips also manages to fit in his personal tragedies(mother's suicide, sibling drug addiction and father's death) as well as his trials, tribulations and triumph pertaining to his marriage and fatherhood. I would definitely suggest that if you can't wait for my blog to be published, check out He Talk Like a White Boy for the next best thing.