what cosby said
In the presence of NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and other African-American leaders, comedian Bill Cosby took aim at blacks who don't take responsibility for their economic status, blame police for incarcerations and teach their kids poor speaking habits.
Bill Cosby
Cosby made his remarks at a Constitution Hall event in Washington Monday night commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision that paved the way for integrated schools, reported Richard Leiby in his Reliable Source column for the Washington Post.
Leiby said Cosby's remarks were met with "astonishment, laughter and applause."
When Cosby finally concluded, Leiby said, Mfume, Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert and NAACP legal defense fund head Theodore Shaw came to the podium looking "stone-faced."
Shaw told the crowd most people on welfare are not African American. He insisted many of the problems his organization addresses among blacks are not self-inflicted.
Cosby said, according to Leiby: "Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids – $500 sneakers for what? And won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.'
He added: "They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk: 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. ... Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. ... You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!"
The Post said Cosby also targeted imprisoned blacks.
"These are not political criminals," he said. "These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, 'The cops shouldn't have shot him.' What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?"
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I am eager to hear how you feel about this. I think it's time we had a shake up. We've been looking the other way for far too long, sugar-coating everything and letting BET babysit our kids. If we descended from great kings and queens, isn't it about time we acted like it?
Okay okay okay… I’ve got to say Cosby came strong and hard on this one. I think first of all we have to understand that Cosby comes from another generation, a generation and or time; a time when education and the progress of our people and our communities were priority where as it’s not on the top of most of our lists at this time. I think his comments were a bit harsh and as some have said irresponsible. However, we’ve got to remember that his comments were not based on our community as a whole as they were based on a fraction of what we all see within our community. I guess Cosby just voiced some issues he’s witnessed within our community the very issues that needs to be addressed. Perhaps the controversy behind his statement will bring enough attention to the problems and issues we face so that we (as in members of the African American community) can begin to address them. (mali)
what i think:
i think some of the comments
that Bill Cosby made were
on point..while i found others
reactionary and judgemental.
i have a problem with that.
it is ok to point out inconsistencies
within our race, but it's another
to make a mockery of it.
i had the pleasure of seeing
the same man make comments
on national t.v. during an
oscar ceremony..regarding the
way black people talk.
his comments then made me
uncomfortable then....judge not!
funny, this is a same man who
brought us the voice behind
fat albert...i don't know if
any of you kids remember...
but fat albert spoke his own
lingo...lingo that majority
of the black community understood.
i did find truth to a few of his
statements. i'm not doubting that
there's truth there.. however i
found his comments to be ridiculing.
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