What Are You Thinking ...(Dr. Huxtable)

Bill Cosby is speaking to America. Specifically, he is talking to black America. He is lecturing black parents and children about not making better choices. He is telling parents to straighten up their own house. He says, “Straighten up your child.” In doing this he is being criticized by some in the black community for airing back peoples dirty laundry.

Cosby is scolding blacks for allowing their children to place a higher value on clothes, shoes and music rather than and education and speaking proper English. Again, he wants to know why black parents have allowed their children to fail. He does this by not mincing words. He said, “These people are not parenting.” Finally, someone is setting aside all the politically correct B.S. and telling it like it is.

Cosby is known for playing the character Dr. Cliff Huxtable on “The Cosby Show”. The show was much different than what we see nowadays on TV. It was a show where the parents were actually brighter than the children and actually taught their kids rather than the other way around. He remembers a time when children were not brought up to feel comfortable enough to call their parents stupid. Today it happens all houses regardless of race. Kids are masters of their domain.

It is not just black children that have lacked parenting. White children may have more money and attend better schools but they too lack the necessary discipline and direction that Dr. Huxtable provided his kids. I don’t think Dr. Huxtable would have his children walking around with cell phones, dressing with a lack of respect, using drugs or alcohol, staying out past a decent hour or having sex in junior high school. All you have to do is watch the television show "Super Nanny" to see how far parenting has fallen. The problems are different but it would be a pleasure to hear Mr. Cosby speak not just to “his kind” but also to “all kinds”. Many of todays parents could use a refresher course on parenting.