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Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus9/18/2009 12:15:09 am PDT
Now Bill Cosby weighs in on Carter’s side of race issue

Comedian Bill Cosby has gotten a lot of praise on the right for his fairly conservative take on race and racial relations in the U.S. recently. And he hasn’t been afraid to take on President Obama on those issues, either; after Obama said police had acted “stupidly” in arresting Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr., Cosby said he was “shocked.”

Conservatives aren’t likely to enjoy Cosby’s latest statement about race quite so much. On his Facebook page, the comedian had this to say about former President Carter’s allegation that racism is behind much of the animosity towards Obama, and about Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C.: […]