[mvpel]

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!"

[Riverman94610]

Cosby didn’t take it far enough.NO kid should be wearing 500 dollar sneakers.
Low income people spending money on stupid things is only part of the problem.Some people spend 500 dollars on shampoos for their pet poodles!
As far as the so called”ghetto handbook”,sounds like it should be in SPANISH if 60% of Houston is Latino.
If you have half a brain,you catch on real fast when kids are using ebonics and so called ghetto slang.A handbook is hardly necessary.

[FES0844]

or your drawers falling off of you!!