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More of the Cos...
I'm not mad at the cos...not one bit.
>Bill Cosby, Back by Popular Demand
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>* In fiery remarks last week in Washington, Bill Cosby took the black
>community to task for parental failures that he says have led to high
>dropout rates, crime and other social ills. After we published brief
>excerpts of his cultural critique -- delivered at a gala marking the
>50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling
>-- several readers called for more. Conservative broadcasters seized upon
>Cosby's remarks, but he was unrepentant in an interview yesterday
>with The Post's Hamil Harris: "Do I not make a move to speak to the people
>that I love?" he said.
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>He plans to continue preaching his tough gospel, which was motivated, he
>said, by District Police Chief Charles Ramsey, who earlier this year
>called on the community to do a better job of parenting.
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>NAACP Executive Director Kweisi Mfume said he agreed with "most of what
>Cosby said" and hugged him after the speech. "He said what needed to be
>said," Mfume said.
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>"I was talking to the movers and shakers," Cosby emphasized yesterday.
>Here's more Cos, as tape-recorded by Harris Monday night:
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>"I am talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there
>in an orange suit. Where were you when he was 2? Where were you when he
>was 12? Where were you when he was 18 and how come you didn't
>know that he had a pistol? And where is the father?
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>"The church is only open on Sunday and you can't keep asking Jesus to do
>things for you. You can't keep saying that God will find a way. God is
>tired of you," Cosby declared to loud applause.
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>"I wasn't there when God was saying it, I am making this up, but it sounds
>like what God would say. In all of this work we can not blame white
>people. White people don't live over there; they close up the shop early.
>The Korean ones don't know us well enough, so they stay open 24 hours."
>
>On fashion: "People putting their clothes on backwards: Isn't that a sign
>of something gone wrong? . . . People with their hats on backwards, pants
>down around the crack, isn't that a sign of something, or are you
>waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? Isn't it a sign of something when
>she has her dress all the way up to the crack and got all type of needles
>[piercing] going through her body? What part of Africa did this
>come from? Those people are not Africans; they don't know a damn thing
>about Africa.
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>"With names like Shaniqua, Taliqua and Mohammed and all of that crap, and
>all of them are in jail. Brown versus the Board of Education is no longer
>the white person's problem. We have got to take the neighborhood
>back. We have to go in there -- forget about telling your child to go into
>the Peace Corps -- it is right around the corner. They are standing on the
>corner and they can't speak English."
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>On sports heroes: "Basketball players -- multimillionaires -- can't write
>a paragraph. Football players -- multimillionaires -- can't read.
>Yes, multimillionaires. Well, Brown versus Board of Education: Where are
>we today? They paved the way, but what did we do with it? That white man,
>he's laughing. He's got to be laughing: 50 percent drop out, the rest of
>them are in prison."
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>On teenage sex: "Five, six children -- same woman -- eight, 10 different
>husbands or whatever. Pretty soon you are going to have DNA cards to tell
>who you are making love to. You don't know who this is. It might be
>your grandmother. I am telling you, they're young enough! Hey, you have a
>baby when you are 12; your baby turns 13 and has a baby. How old are you?
>Huh? Grandmother! By the time you are 12 you can have sex with your
>grandmother, you keep those numbers coming. I'm just predicting. . . .
>
>"What is it -- young girls getting after a girl who wants to remain a
>virgin? Who are these sick black people and where do they come from and
>why haven't they been parented to shut up? This is a sickness, ladies and
>gentlemen."
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