In an interview for Time, Phylicia Rashad (beautiful!) was asked if she agreed with Bill Cosby’s remarks given at the NAACP’s celebration of the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education:
BILL COSBY CAUSED A LOT OF CONTROVERSY WITH HIS SPEECH A FEW WEEKS AGO IN WASHINGTON CRITICIZING SOME BLACK PARENTS FOR NOT INSTILLING PROPER VALUES IN THEIR KIDS. DID YOU AGREE AT ALL WITH HIS COMMENTS?
First of all, let me just say that everyone in Constitution Hall applauded him. All right? And I think it isn’t a great idea to take people’s statements out of context. He’s not criticizing black parents. What he’s looking at is the change in values in our society and culture. What he’s addressing specifically, and this is true for our nation, is that education is not valued the way it needs to be for the sake of our young people and our nation. And I think he’s right about that. Teachers are not held in the same regard as they were when I was in school. He’s not wrong about that, and he’s right for asserting that parents have to advocate for their children.
(Hat tip: Booker Rising)
Walter Williams wrote two great columns about Cosby’s comments, Part I and Part II. Speaking of Williams, he’s sitting in for Rush Limbaugh today. I usually don’t listen when Rush is gone, but Williams is so funny, especially when he talks about “Mrs. Williams” and how lucky she is to have a husband like him. 
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i love bill cosby and phylicia rashad so i agree with both
I agree with Mr. Cosby. I am an 18 year old that is still in school and I am surrounded by what he talked about. No, I don’t think he was wrong. As a matter of fact I am glad that someone cared enough to stand up and say something about it. I am with him 100 percent. The people that got upset about the comments are those that fit in the place that he was talking about. The reason I support the comments is because in our African American history our people did all they could for us to live in the society that we live in today and all we are doing is letting it slip out of our hands.Don’t be mad at Mr.Cosby be glad that he was the one that stood up.
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