Bill Cosby was anything but politically correct in his remarks Monday
night at a Constitution Hall bash commemorating the 50th anniversary
of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. To astonishment, laughter
and applause, Cosby mocked everything from urban fashion to black
spending and speaking habits.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up
their end in this deal," he declared. "These people are not parenting.
They are buying things for kids -- $500 sneakers for what? And won't
spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' . . .
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English," he
exclaimed. "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's Hamil Harris reports that Cosby also turned his wrath to
"the incarcerated," saying: "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?"
When Cosby finally concluded, Howard University President H. Patrick
Swygert, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and NAACP legal defense fund
head Theodore Shaw came to the podium looking stone-faced. Shaw told
the crowd that most people on welfare are not African American, and
many of the problems his organization has addressed in the black
community were not self-inflicted.
night at a Constitution Hall bash commemorating the 50th anniversary
of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. To astonishment, laughter
and applause, Cosby mocked everything from urban fashion to black
spending and speaking habits.
"Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up
their end in this deal," he declared. "These people are not parenting.
They are buying things for kids -- $500 sneakers for what? And won't
spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' . . .
"They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English," he
exclaimed. "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's Hamil Harris reports that Cosby also turned his wrath to
"the incarcerated," saying: "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?"
When Cosby finally concluded, Howard University President H. Patrick
Swygert, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and NAACP legal defense fund
head Theodore Shaw came to the podium looking stone-faced. Shaw told
the crowd that most people on welfare are not African American, and
many of the problems his organization has addressed in the black
community were not self-inflicted.
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