Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors | Bill Cosby, Alvin F. Poussaint

Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors | Bill Cosby, Alvin F. Poussaint | Just Getting Started but looks great

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	Come on, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors Bill Cosby, Alvin F. Poussaint Thomas Nelson, 2007 - 288 pages average customer review:based on 79 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Bill Cosby and Alvin F. Poussaint have a powerful message for families and communities as they lay out their visions for strengthening America, or for that matter the world. They address the crises of people who are stuck because of feelings of low self-esteem, abandonment, anger, fearfulness, sadness, and feelings of being used, undefended and unprotected. These feelings often impede their ability to move forward. The authors aim to help empower people make the daunting transition from victims to victors. Come On, People! is always engaging, and loaded with heart-piercing stories of the problems facing many communities.

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Everyone black and white shoud read this book.

This was an outstanding book. I am doing a paper on Bill Cosby for a Leadership program at work on leaders. This book had points of view that I had not though of. Very entertaining as well as educational.

Just Getting Started but looks great

I just bought this book off of the bargain table at a local book store. I am only a little ways into it but so far I am impressed. My concern, though, is that those most likely to benefit from this book will never read it or even find out about it.

Based on what little I have read, I would recommend this book to those who have become tired of the race hucksters (Sharpton & Co.) and would like to read some good ideas about what needs to be done to improve the lot of minorities in the inner cities.

One minor criticism: I haven't quite read a third of the book and Cosby has mentioned "institutional racism" twice. Rubbish! Institutional racism does not exist. Cosby should leave such nonsense to the Left.

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He's preaching. Who's listening?

Bill Cosby's latest novel makes everyone uncomfortable about the realities of what slavery and institutional racism have done to America.
Cosby's take is that there comes a time when black people have to take some responsibility for making their lives and communities better. It is no wonder that he has been ostracized by the media minorities who make their livelihoods on blaming others for black America's problems. The book gets a little preachy and simplistic about solutions toward the end of the book. The beginning is better. It is worth a read.

Alot of browbeating, preaching to the choir...

The problem with these types of books is that the people that would most benefit from the ideals therein will never pick it up and read it without any coaxing. That's not to say that this isn't a good book and that readers shouldn't spread the word because it is and they should.

But let's be honest: the book is a summary of classical and common sense ideas

1. The importance of a classical nuclear family structure
2. Fathers spending more time (and dollars) on their children
3. Abstaining from too much of the idiot box
4. Staying involved in school via PTC's
5. Monitoring what we feed our mind body and spirit

This is all superficial fluff. We all know what the issues are and what needs to be done (or maybe we don't). Mr. Cosby's national calls to order in town hall meetings are more affective of change than reading this book because you get to hear powerful testamonials from people that are living the stories spoken in the book and how they turned it around.

In all, this is "Enough Part II". If you've read that book...you've read this one.

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Surprising for Cosby

This book was not what I expected. Cosby reaches to a sector of black people who have been made infantile in their reasoning. This book is not for the exercised mind.

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