Obama Speaks Frankly

As he campaigns for the Democratic presidential nomination, Barack Obama is speaking frankly about problems in the African American community. From an article in the Washington Post:

"Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) is delivering pointed critiques of the African American community as he campaigns for its votes, lamenting that many of his generation are 'disenfranchising' themselves because they don't vote, taking rappers to task for their language, and decrying 'anti-intellectualism' in the black community, including black children telling peers who get good grades that they are 'acting white.'"

Somewhere, Bill Cosby, who was savaged for saying such things, must be thinking, "Better late than never."