Follow Up 7

In a reaction to Cosby’s speech, many journalists, psychologists and historians wrote about issues affecting Modern African Americans. 

Review Bill Cosby’s speech : http://www.blackpast.org/?q=2004-bill-cosby-pound-cake-speech 

or at 
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/billcosbypoundcakespeech.htm 

Follow up directions

Pick one article to read and summarize for the class what your learned from the authors about Modern African Americans.  And do you agree with their opinion of the problems facing modern African Americans?

Why Our Black Families Are Failing By William Raspberry

The New Black Realism By: Kay S. Hymowitz 

The Black Family: 40 Years of Lies By: Kay S. Hymowitz 

BREAKDOWN OF THE BLACK FAMILY, AND ITS CONSEQUENCES

Current Challenges in the African-American Community

The African- American Family in Crisis by Henry A Rhodes

The Changing Definition of African-American: How the great influx of people from Africa and the Caribbean since 1965 is challenging what it means to be African-American By Ira Berlin 

 The Ten Biggest Problems Facing African-Americans Today By: Lee McGrath