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Did Bill Cosby mock underclass blacks?
On Monday, Bill Cosby was a speaker at an event to honoring the Brown vs BOE anniversary. In his speech, he made remarks regarding low income and underclass black american. Here is an excerpt:
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"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!"
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There are some people critizing Bill for these comments as well as his comments regarding blacks that are in prison.
Question:
Do you think Bill is being unfairly critized or was he simply tellign the truth? Or is this a case of people (blacks specifically) being upset because African American person publically criticized "their race"?
What are you thoughts?
ETA:
Oops. Earlier, I quoted the wrong story (Full Story of Quote Above). The correct article about Bill's comments has been posted and is in the middle of the page. 
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Last edited by Honeykiss1974; 05-21-2004 at 12:58 PM.
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