{"id":226,"date":"2004-05-20T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vmalt\/?p=226"},"modified":"2005-12-31T16:17:11","modified_gmt":"2005-12-31T21:17:11","slug":"the-cosby-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-cosby-show","title":{"rendered":"The Cosby Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, Bill Cosby&#8217;s got some strong opinions on lower-class black families. According to the Washington Post, Cosby unloaded at a recent event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Ed.:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;They&#8217;re standing on the corner and they can&#8217;t speak English,&#8221; he exclaimed. &#8220;I can&#8217;t even talk the way these people talk: &#8216;Why you ain&#8217;t,&#8217; &#8216;Where you is&#8217; . . . And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. . . . Everybody knows it&#8217;s important to speak English except these knuckleheads. . . . You can&#8217;t be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth!&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s more. Scroll down from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A37869-2004May18.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Cosby defends statements that he really shouldn&#8217;t have to waste his time defending, in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/05\/22\/arts\/22COSB.html\" target=\"_blank\">New York Times<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Evidently, Bill Cosby&#8217;s got some strong opinions on lower-class black families. According to the Washington Post, Cosby unloaded at a recent event commemorating the 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Ed.: &#8220;They&#8217;re standing on the corner and they can&#8217;t speak English,&#8221; he exclaimed. &#8220;I can&#8217;t even talk the way these people talk: &#8216;Why you &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-cosby-show\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Cosby Show&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-3E","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":901,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-cos-on-the-cleanup","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":0},"title":"The Cos on the Cleanup","author":"Gil","date":"April 4, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"Bill Cosby spoke at a rally in NO,LA about reconstruction: Cosby, whose criticism of some aspects of modern African-American culture has stirred controversy in recent years, told a rally headed by black leaders that the city needed to look at the \"wound\" it had before Katrina struck. \"It's painful, but\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;New Orleans&quot;","block_context":{"text":"New Orleans","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/category\/travel\/new-orleans"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":13701,"url":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-386-judy-gold","url_meta":{"origin":226,"position":1},"title":"Episode 386 &#8211; Judy Gold","author":"Gil","date":"July 28, 2020","format":"audio","excerpt":"Virtual Memories Show 386: Judy Gold \"Don't tell me what I'm allowed to talk about. 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