Last Updated on August 26, 2020
Bill Cosby raised a few eyebrows with his social commentary at a Constitution Hall celebration of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision’s anniversary. Abandoning political correctness — for which he should be applauded — Cosby complained that some parents would rather spend $500 on sneakers for their children instead of spending $200 on “Hooked on Phonics.”
“They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English,” he said. “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!”
After Cosby’s speech, NAACP legal defense fund head Theodore Shaw told the crowd that most of the people on welfare are not African-American and that many of the problems the NAACP has addressed for its constituents were not self-inflicted.
Call me crazy, but I think he missed Bill’s point.
