Appearing at a party celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision in D.C. on Monday night, Bill Cosby made the following comments about the results of the struggle for civil rights: 'Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic people are not holding up their end in this deal. 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. 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!' According to the Washington Post, '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.'

(This may be a rumor, but it seems likely considering the snub Cosby gave Wanda Sykes at the Emmys with his 'at least we speak English' crack. Time for us to accept that Cos is an ederly elitist snob who doesn't realize all of American society is retrograding, not just the "niggas and spics"; young whiteys are speaking in the same broken slang. While I agree that good speech is important, it's not quite AS important as it used to be-mister X)