Cosby blasts black community again
Actor Bill Cosby launched a second attack on members of America’s black community, telling men to “stop beating up your women”.
Cosby caused a storm in May when he accused some blacks of spending more money on fashionable trainers than books for their children.
In a second controversial speech yesterday, the comic actor blasted black men who beat their wives.
“You’ve got to stop beating up your women because you can’t find a job, because you didn’t want to get an education and now you’re (earning) minimum wage,” he said in Chicago.
“You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity,” he told the audience of African American activists.
He said his African American critics, who attacked his speech in May, were trying to hide the community’s “dirty laundry”.
“Let me tell you something, your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2.30 every day, it’s cursing and calling each other n***** as they’re walking up and down the street.
“They think they’re hip. They can’t read, they can’t write. They’re laughing and giggling, and they’re going nowhere,” he said.
Cosby has taken a combative approach to solving problems among the African American community.
He said black people could not blame whites for social problems like teenage pregnancy and high school dropout rates.
“We have to turn the mirror around. Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us.
“And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you’re sitting in.”
Cosby said he did not care if his words were used against black Americans by racist whites.
“Let them talk,” he said.
