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... he said. "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. ...""These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education, and now we've got these knuckleheads walking around. "Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal," he said Monday night. "These people are not parenting. They are buying things for kids - $500 sneakers for what? "And they won't spend $200 for 'Hooked on Phonics.' ... "They're standing on the corner and they can't speak English," he said. "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!" ...[imprisoned blacks] are not political criminals," he said. "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?"
I give you Dr Bill Cosby on the occasion of the NAACP celebration dinner of the anniversary of Brown vs Board of Education. UPDATE: Added the first sentence of the quote above... Isn't it amazing how difficult it is to find the text of this much-discussed speech?!? Have you looked? I wonder what could possibly be going on here...
They didn’t expect that coming, did they?
Well done Dr. Cosby.
Posted by Zachariah on 05/21/04 at 10:48 AMHe didn’t exactly get thunderous applause either. Odd, that.
Posted by Jim on 05/21/04 at 11:57 AMI’da paid to see their faces…
Posted by Claire on 05/21/04 at 12:35 PM
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