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Bill Cosby politically incorrect at bash celebrating Brown v. Board of Education
WashingtonPost ^ | 05/19/04 | Reliable Source

Posted on 05/19/2004 10:53:40 AM PDT by Pikamax

Cosby, Saying the Darndest Things

• 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.

Bill Cosby, ready to let off steam. (Lawrence Jackson - AP)

"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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: billcosby; brownvboardofed; comedy; cosby; naacp
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To: dfwgator
I thought Cosby got his degree from Temple

Undergrad.

61 posted on 05/19/2004 11:24:38 AM PDT by Protagoras (Control is the objective , freedom is the obstacle.)
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To: Pikamax
i know Cosby is liberal in his politics... however, i do like and respect him for the most part... he never makes excuses for any class not being successful...

i read a book of his on Fatherhood--very funny and telling... and a lot of the situations in the book showed up on The Cosby Show... i got the message that if we want to reach a certain goal, there are things WE need to do get there... (i know, us Freepers think that way, so it's no big deal--but to get that from a liberal is extraordinary)...

i thought he handled his son's murder very tactfully... he didn't rant and rave and use his celebrity... to me he seemed to come across with the attitude that this kind of tragedy happens everyday--so how can he expect that he would be sheltered from it?

62 posted on 05/19/2004 11:24:40 AM PDT by latina4dubya
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To: Pikamax

Did they ever catch the person that killed his son?


63 posted on 05/19/2004 11:27:46 AM PDT by ColoradoSlim (All we are saying is give corn a chance! Ethanol for a strong USA)
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To: Rokurota
I'm not complaining, I generally like Cosby, but did you know his Ph.D. thesis was basically using Fat Albert to teach kids?

I don't see anything inherently wrong with basing a doctoral thesis in Education on the use of animation as an instructional medium. Cosby usually put moral themes in with the slapstick in his stuff, especially "actions have consequences" and "listen to your parents". Was there anything in particular wrong with it?

64 posted on 05/19/2004 11:28:21 AM PDT by RonF
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To: Protagoras
I have only been watching him since the sixties, so I might have missed something.

Yes. You missed him talking candidly without a script. You ain't the only old fart on this forum, you know.

65 posted on 05/19/2004 11:29:10 AM PDT by prion
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To: EggsAckley
I lit the wrong end of my cigarette!

Hey, can my health be harmed by second hand internet smoke?! I gotta get Al Gore's book out and check.......

Lando

66 posted on 05/19/2004 11:29:49 AM PDT by Lando Lincoln (GWB in 2004)
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To: Pikamax
"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"

Then the NAACP should start addressing the problems in the black community which ARE self-inflicted - like the things Cosby was talking about.

67 posted on 05/19/2004 11:30:04 AM PDT by Enterprise
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To: Pikamax
I always thought Bill Cosby was pretty reasonable about race issues. It was his wife who went loony after their son died, and she blamed "racism" as opposed to blaming the people who killed their son.

My problem with "the Cos" is that he ceased to be funny once he got his TV show. But I'll never forget a live concert back in the 1970s and it was one of the funniest stand-ups I've EVER seen.

68 posted on 05/19/2004 11:31:34 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
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To: kinsman redeemer
I've got little tiny hairs agrowin out of my face...

I forgot I was behind him...

When sliding, turn in the direction you are sliding. Which to me was like leaning into a left hook. So, I turned the wheel the opposite way. Next thing I know, I'm going down the road sideways...

When I was young...I had his albums memorized. Kindergarden, Noah, Fat Albert. Funny, funny stuff.

So was Flip Wilson's "Cowboys and Colored People." His sketch, "Christopher Columbus" was a riot.

"Weigh anchor!"

Ten minutes later the men came back and reported, 10,545 pounds.

"Put the anchor in the boat. You guys don't even know how to weigh anchor."

Again, funny stuff.

69 posted on 05/19/2004 11:32:24 AM PDT by carton253 (Re: The War on Terror. It's time to draw our swords and throw away the scabbards.)
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To: WestTexasWend; Poohbah; veronica

Whoa... Ms. Boyle's sure taking a huge risk by saying that.


70 posted on 05/19/2004 11:33:30 AM PDT by hchutch ("Go ahead. Leave early and beat the traffic. The Milwaukee Brewers dare you." - MLB.com 5/11/04)
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To: mhking

No way!!!


71 posted on 05/19/2004 11:34:16 AM PDT by Trueblackman (Terrorism and Liberalism never sleep and neither do I)
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To: prion

Did BILL do that or Camille? My recollection was his wife went off, not him.


72 posted on 05/19/2004 11:34:46 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
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To: LS
Did BILL do that or Camille? My recollection was his wife went off, not him.

Hm. I think you're right.

73 posted on 05/19/2004 11:37:09 AM PDT by prion
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To: dfwgator

He went to Temple as an undergrad.


74 posted on 05/19/2004 11:37:30 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
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To: dfwgator
I thought Cosby got his degree from Temple.

His undergrad degree was from Temple.

75 posted on 05/19/2004 11:37:40 AM PDT by mhking (Don't wait for the translation, ANSWER ME NOW!)
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To: RonF
I think he holds an Ed.D or whatever a Ph.D. in Education is noted by. Just to roll a hand grenade into this conversation I must say that I've encountered a lot of Doctorates in Education who have not proven the same bona fides most would expect of a Ph.D. 

I only read the excerpt - and I know he will be dismissed for the blast by the unusual suspects with explanations that he is misplacing blame for his murdered son, etc., etc.. - but I do think it is valid criticism to say: "Bill, what took you so long?"
76 posted on 05/19/2004 11:37:41 AM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: carton253

"Cap'n Custer, Cap'n Sittin' Bull. Cap'n Sittin Bull, Cap'n Custer. Call the toss, Cus."


77 posted on 05/19/2004 11:39:13 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news.)
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To: mhking; LS; Protagoras

Thanks for clearing that up.


78 posted on 05/19/2004 11:39:57 AM PDT by dfwgator (It's sad that the news media treats Michael Jackson better than our military.)
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To: Pikamax

What a welcome surprise.


79 posted on 05/19/2004 11:40:10 AM PDT by aculeus
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To: ColoradoSlim
Yes!

"Closure for the Cos.

A jury in Santa Monica, California, has found Mikail Markhasev guilty of killing Bill Cosby's only son, Ennis, during a botched roadside robbery in January 1997."

link

80 posted on 05/19/2004 11:40:49 AM PDT by Enterprise
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