dr. alvin poussaint. the famed psychiatrist joined us. ing before we go much further. i've tried to get out of dr. cosby and he's been gracious through much of this. when you hear some of the criticism that has been waged toward him, does it anger you? >> it angers me a bit. because i think it's very unfair. when they're angry with him and criticizing him for airing dirty laundry, it makes no sense. sh knows our dirty laundry and that somehow bill is hurting us by talking about some of our problems with our young people, high school dropouts. violence and so on, poor parenting, that they would say he's airing dirty laundry, i think that's an excuse not to do anything, to be in a state of denial about what we need to do and the kind of issues and problems we have in the black community that need correction. >> doctor, you and i have talked many, many years about some of these problems individually. >> yeah. >> how much do you believe now it is pathological within the community? >> well, i think there are -- you know, pathological in the sen