Several readers alerted me to this story, so I thought I should share it with you. I remember hearing about this a few days ago but didn’t follow-up on it.
Whether he considers himself a conservative or not, Bill Cosby is on our team now:
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.
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!”
Check out the Washington Post’s coverage, too (scroll down). A prominent, respected black man speaks the truth in front of black liberals. I do love it so!
UPDATE (6:00 pm) You’ve got to read what else Cosby said. I know it’s in the WorldNetDaily article, but I wanted to emphasize it:
Turning to criminal justice, he said, “These are not political criminals. 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, saying, ‘The cops shouldn’t have shot him.’ What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?”
I laughed. I couldn’t suppress it.
