In This Nation, Leadership Is Dollars.

We Had Two African American Writers [eric Monte And Michael Evans] On The Show ['good Times'] That Knew Cabrini Green Inside And Out, And That's Why We Set It There.

What Happens At The Average Church Or Synagogue Or Mosque Is That I Don't Know Many Priests Or Ministers Or Rabbis Who Say To Their Congregation, 'go Home And Talk About The Religion At The Kitchen Table With Your Kids...talk About God, Talk About What This Is All About.' They Say In General, Come Back On The Weekend, We'll Talk To You About It.

We Had A Judeo-christian Ethic Hanging Around A Couple Thousand Years That Didn't Help Erase Racism At All. So The Notion Of The Little Half-hour Comedy Changing Things Is Something I Think Is Silly.

Granted, The Writers, Directors, Producers, And That Community Make A Great Deal Of Money. But They Might Be Choosing To Do A Whole Lot Of Other Things For The Living They Make.

In The Area We're Discussing, Leadership Begins On Madison Avenue, On The Desks And In The Offices Of People Who Spend Hundreds Of Millions Of Dollars Buying What Will Get Them Ratings.