He isn't a Bill Clinton but they have something in common.
Posted on 07/08/2015 12:32:05 PM PDT by george76
Though long a symbol of responsible parenthood — model TV dad, doctor of education, proud supporter of Temple University — Bill Cosby etched his legacy in stone with a speech in 2004 that took black parents to task. It became famous as the “Pound Cake” speech for this passage:
“Looking at the incarcerated, 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! Then we all run out and are outraged: ‘The cops shouldn’t have shot him.’ What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand?”
While many lauded Cosby for tackling a delicate subject so directly, it wasn’t long before the trouble began. Before the allegations of sexual assault surfaced, critics lambasted his conservative prescriptions for black America.
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The occasion for Cosby’s talk about black parents’ failures was a National Association for the Advancement of Colored People awards ceremony in Washington on May 17, 2004 — no less an occasion than the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education ...
“In the neighbourhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on,” Cosby said. “In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye. And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.”
Then came the confection that gave Cosby’s most famous address its unusual name, which presaged the debate over Michael Brown’s killing in Ferguson, Mo., 10 years later.
(Excerpt) Read more at vancouversun.com ...
TRANSLATION: Progressives don’t like it when uppity N-words go off the reservation and express opinions of their own.
Cosby’s mistake was, his name was not Bill Clinton.
I sorta forgot that Cosby did indeed nail it with his message that young black youths needed to be accountable and responsible.
Too bad he didn’t take that message personally.
The media, democrats, libs...they ALL knew he was doing this and they turned their heads. It is ONLY when he told black people to pull up their pants, buy hooked on phonics, and fathers stay home...did they attack him and ruin his legacy.
Yes.
>> Too bad he didn’t take that message personally.
I don’t pay much attention to celebrities and their usually bizarre politics. Cosby was an exception. I really liked the guy, enjoyed his humor and respected him for having the courage to stand up to the PC crowd and say some uncomfortable truths.
Rarely have I been more disappointed in someone I had hitherto held in high regard. I really feel let down.
Looks like Bill Cosby shot his reputation over a piece of pound cake.
I hadn't forgotten - I just assumed that Cosby ironically saw his own behavior as a victimless crime.
Yup. this is so sad on so many levels. I used to look up to this man. Loved the whole I Spy and what happened with him and Robert Culp who is probably spinning in his grave. Even went to one of his concerts in Poughkeepsie.
On the other hand slick willie should be shot by the women he’s raped.
The thing is that Cosby should have been famous for sexual aggression, since the 1960s, although he was married, he became the best friend of Hugh Hefner, based on the sex parties at the mansion.
The tabloids would have known that, and they also knew of his affairs, and even these accusations have been bubbling for years.
Was he protected because he was black?
That judge should be disbarred.
This is abuse of power pure and simp,e and pure and simple totalitarianism.
Doesn’t matter what Cosby did or didn’t do, this is an example of a Judge using the law, or rather abusing power, for specific political gain and discrediting dissenters.
All totalitarians use “rule by law”, which is what this is, rather than rule of law.
This is a very serious offense on the leftist judge, but because it is Cosby, that will be drowned out in the hysteria.
Obama got elected to the Senate using similar tactics.
According to Holly Madison’s new book, Hugh Hefner offered her Quaaludes the first time she met him and referred to them as “thigh openers.”
Bill Cosby is hated in the black community for the unforgivable offense of suggesting that whitey might not be completely to blame for black problems.
Lefties do not care about the rule by law.
Hefner offered.
In Cosby’s case he seems to have been slipping drugs to victims, before raping them.
“Bill Cosby’s best friend Hugh Hefner distances himself from actor after claims he sexually assaulted 12 Playboy Bunnies saying ‘I would never tolerate this behavior’ “
More like he was protected because he was making a lot of money for a lot of people.
Take the judges ‘reasoning’ to Harvard, Columbia, Occidental, etc. and try to pry loose Obama’s private records. Fat chance it will work.
He isn't a Bill Clinton but they have something in common.
I was at UMass when Cosby received his work-free doctorate. He bought a mansion nearby and was then excused from all course work on the basis of "life experience." His "dissertation" was an essay on "The Cosby Kids" cartoon show. It has since been locked away and no one may see it. UMass liberals wet their collective pants over being able to make a popular black man a "doctor." To its discredit, UMass' school of education is just as hollow and useless today as it was 40 years ago. Plus, they've added a new degree: Doctor of Social Justice. Mr. Cosby traded his honor for acclaim and now has neither.
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