Bill Cosby gets it right...

He has the guts to tell the truth....

In the meantime, closer to the ground, the comedian-turned-reformer Bill Cosby has joined with Alvin F. Poussaint of Harvard Medical School to write a book, "Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors," which argues that many of the problems within the black community are self-inflicted, the result of a counterproductive culture of violence and victimhood.

Cosby has been making this point for years - and has been getting attacked by the left for years. Michael Eric Dyson, speaking for the liberal street-activism left over from the '60s, wrote an entire book attacking Cosby's "poisonous" view of black culture.

But Cosby and Poussaint have the cold terrible facts on their side: "In 1950, five out of every six black children were born into a two-parent home. Today that number is less than two out of six." Yes, white racism exists, but it was worse a half-century ago. Something bad is happening within black culture, and Cosby and Poussaint are not shy about naming it: the celebration of violence and ignorance emblemized in the "gangsta" lifestyle.

The unyielding truth is that any group climbs into the middle class only by embracing middle-class values. This is a "conservative" fact of life that was once equally embraced by liberals, before they "progressed" on to "liberation" as a new goal.