EARL OFARI HUTCHINSON: Fat Albert's Lessons For Cosby.

"In June 2004, a month after Cosby's initial outburst, a U.S. Commerce Department report found that black high school graduation rates hit a record high. Eighty percent graduated. Equally significant, the number of blacks graduating leaped ten percent from 1993 to 2000. That was double the increase on non-Hispanic whites. A survey of student attitudes by the Minority Student Achievement Network, an Illinois-based educational advocacy group in 2002, found that black students were as motivated, studied as hard, and were as serious about graduating as whites."