Good job, Bill Cosby

[LAKE]

Bill Cosby was anything but politically correct in his remarks Monday night at a Constitution Hall bash commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. To astonishment, laughter and applause, Cosby mocked everything from urban fashion to black spending and speaking habits.


Bill Cosby, ready to let off steam. (Lawrence Jackson - AP)

"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!"

The Post's Hamil Harris reports that Cosby also turned his wrath to "the incarcerated," saying: "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 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?"

When Cosby finally concluded, Howard University President H. Patrick Swygert, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume and NAACP legal defense fund head Theodore Shaw came to the podium looking stone-faced. Shaw told the crowd that most people on welfare are not African American, and many of the problems his organization has addressed in the black community were not self-inflicted.

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[Emperor Napoleon]

Even more extraordinary coming from a man whose son was killed by a white supremacist nut.

[travelinman]

I like theis part better

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148 years ago:

Sen. Charles Sumner, an abolitionist from Massachusetts, delivered his fiery "Crimes Against Kansas" speech, in which he decried the efforts of southerners to force slavery into that territory. He singled out Andrew Pickens Butler, a pro-slavery senator from South Carolina, declaring: "Of course he has chosen a mistress to whom he has made his vows, and who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight. I mean the harlot, Slavery."

Butler wasn't present to hear Sumner's screed, but a fellow South Carolinian, Rep. Preston S. Brooks, was. Three days later he took his revenge. Brooks quietly entered the Senate chamber, found Sumner working at his desk, and announced, "I have read your speech twice over carefully. It is a libel on South Carolina and Mr. Butler, who is a relative of mine." Then Brooks started whacking Sumner with a cane until it splintered and his victim fell from his chair in a bloody heap. Sumner's injuries were so severe he was unable to return to the Senate for three years. Brooks resigned from Congress but was promptly reelected to fill his own vacancy.