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v: The action of making African Americans pallitable to a widespread cross-section of white America, with a similar amount of success attained by Bill Cosby's "Cosby Show" (1984-92). The Cosbification of a TV show will normally depict an upper middle class-to-wealthy black family with one or both parents having a well-paying occupation. The parents have a close relationship which would never be beset by past lovers or baby mamas. The use of Ebonics or other cultural slang would be at a minimum (AKA the maximum allowable by networks other than BET, UPN or The WB). Past tense: Cosbified Noun: Cosbification
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