A lot of that can be applied to any number of communities living in poverty with substandard housing and insufficient education. There *is* a lot to the notion that being born into an environment will determine who you are, but that does not excuse dropping out, drinking up and beating down your wife.
You've got a number of social programs and institutions to help poverty-stricken minorities who have ambition, and I think Mr. Cosby is just trying to remind people that they've actually got to have that ambition to work things out.
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