Cosby’s Words That Started It All
Address at the NAACP’ on the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
On poor people:
“The lower economic and lower middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. … I’m talking about 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? And where were you when he was 18, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol?”
On illiteracy:
“Brown v. Board of Education is no longer the white person’s problem. We’ve got to take the neighborhood back. We’ve got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It’s right around the corner. It can’t speak English. It doesn’t want to speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk. “Why you ain’t where you is go, ra.” … Everybody knows how important it is to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can’t land a plane with ‘Why you ain’t …’ You can’t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth.”
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