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By RANDOLPH PICHT
Associated Press Writer
ROCHESTER, N.Y. -- A
15-year-old boy with cancer
whose condition was worsening
''just lit up like a Christmas tree"
last Thursday night w hen he watched
"The Cosby Show" on
television and saw Bill Cosby
wearing a sweatshirt the boy had
given him, the boy's mother said.
Cosby called the boy before the
show and told him to be sure and
watch, and also said that as soon
as he feels up to it, he can come
and appear on an upcoming
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"It was better than any
medicine they could have given
him," Mary Pettway said from
her son's hospital room.
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Some of the costs of entering
business,'Subira noted, will be
more difficult to detect than
others. He said some potential
business people will struggle with
a fear of failing anjs others with a
change in values.
"One of the major roadblocks
why black people do not go into
business is because they care so
very much about what people
think," he said. "We worry
about what our friends will say if
we go into business and don't
make it.
"But you have to be prepared
to deal with changing values. I
am a product of the nationalist
movement. I may not look like it
in this suit and tie, but from 1966
to 1977 I didn't wear a tie. A lot
_oi people look at me and say,_
'Oh, you're preaching capitalism
now. Are you a Republican,
too?' "
Subira contends that the only
difference between whites and
blacks is a difference of degree.
He says blacks must begin to take
action to help themselves rather
than waiting for "someone else"
to solve their problems.
This is particularly true, he
notes, when it comes to having a
business-mindc4,outlook.
. " 'The man' looks at problems
and says, 'How many people
have this problem? How much
are they willing to pav to solve.
- it7T~rrhe says. "We have to look
carefully at the black community
and at our problems. We're a
gold mine full of problems. We
have to look at our problems and
begin to solve them, or else we'll
continue to just sit and wait for
, somebody else to solve them."
Subira is critical of what he
perceives as blacks' satisfaction
with letting other people offer
solutions to black problems,
usually at a profit to whites.
Black businesses, he says, are the
way to begin to turn the tables.
"We look outside our problems
to solve our problems,"
says Subira, who has two
graduate degrees. "What white
folks realized a long time ago is
we're going to have to solve this
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icer patient;
who suffers from cancer of the
sinus, gave Co'kby the shirt last
month when he visited the
Brooklyn television studio where
the show is taped.
The teen-ager made the trip
with the help of Camp Good
Days and Special Times, a
Rochester-based group which
works to improve the quality of
life for children with cancer and
their families.
The sweatshirt Cosby wore had
the Camp Good Days and Special,
Times logo on it.
"He's just as excited as he can
be," said Mrs. Pettway of
Rochester.
She said she took her sAi to
Strong Memorial Hospital early
last week, where doctors told her
his condition was rapidly
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problem. What they do is they
don't make it social work. They
make it business. They see
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"We need to look at our problems.
We might find out they
have some of the same problems,
and then we ran cell them rmr
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solutions."
Subira is perturbed with the
criticism he has heard about
black author Alice Walker's
"The Color Purple," which was
made into a controversial motion
picture by director Steven
Spielberg.
He says if the black community
had had the resources available to
bring the work to the screen, they
would have perhaps had more say
about its contents. However, he
says, Ms. Walker is not to blame
for blacks' lack of resources.
"Everybody got mad at Alice
Walker because Steven Spielberg
had $14 million to make her
movie," he says. "What if she
came to you and said, 'Excuse
me, do you have $14 million for
my movie, which would entitle
you to have some say in its
script?' We need to be in a position
where we don't have to turn
our backs on people coming from
our community."
Subira is also disturbed by
what he calls blacks' "worldwide
reputatiop for being people who
cannot, Will not take care of
business."
He compares blacks' attitudes
about business to a race, which
he says is being won by everyone
except blacks.
Noting that there are many
unoccupied old buildings in black
neighborhoods, Subira say.s
blacks pass these buildings every
day and say, "You know, that
building isn't in such bad shape.
. Some'body should do something
with it.'1
"Then," he says, "a little
white man comes from 14,000
miles away, crosses mountains
and hills, gets on a Greyhound
bus, takes a taxi and passes that
same building, gets out and says,
'You know, that building isn't in
such bad shape. / can do
something with that.' Then we
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have a week to live.
"They couldn't see any hope,'
she said. "They said they didn'
see the need in giving him anj
medication."
Last Thursday a hospital nurs<
and a spokeswoman from Camp
Good Days called officials ai
"The Cosby Show" to get a
message to Cosby, and within ar
hour the entertainer was on the
phone, telling the boy about a
surprise on the upcoming show.
Upon hearing about the boy's
condition, Cosby made arrangements
to wear the sweatshirt
on the show, which was being
taped Thursday afternoon for
broadcast later that nioht
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his new store.
"We had a 14,000-mile head
start. If you got a 14,000-miU
head start and refused to race,
fine. There'll still be a race., and
somebody's still going to win -
only it won't be you."
Subira, who sports a confident
and upbeat personality and tone,
spoke sadly about blacks having
to be "forced" to go into
business for themselves. He said
he often has mixed emotions
when he hears about layoffs and
cutbacks because some people
will be unemployed for long
periods of time, but others will be
"forced" to venture out on their
own.
"You got to force us to help
ourselves," Subira said, shaking
his head in dismay. "When I left
?Raleigh, they said,?'Oh, they
have a terrible problem in
Winston-Salem. R.J. Reynolds is
leaving. Thousands of people are
being laid off/
"1 said, 'Hallelujah! They're
going to force blood to be
free!' "
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/ had started showing signs of improvement
several hours before
' the phone call, but that talking to
t Cosby gave him a tremendous
f lift.
"When I handed him the
phone, he said, is this my Bill?'
' and was just so happy," she said.
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