"We cannot have a generation of young black kids growing up not being able to read and write.....Intelligent kids dumb down because they don't want to be ostracized. They don't want to be called a white boy or a white girl. Or a sell-out. Or an Oreo. Somehow, they equate ignorance with being black and being real and being street. The ghetto has become a badge of honor. And that's more than insane. That's bananas."

This rhetoric is encouraging but how does it translate into action? What are some of the specific actions that Spike Lee, and others who have chimed in to agree with Cosby, propose to reverse this trend?