Cosby: Brutally honest or elitist snob?

Earlier this month Bill Cosby took a segment of the black community to task on issues from their grammar to complaints about police brutality. Some people said he was being brutally honest, while others said his remarks were a classist, elitist attack on the poor. What do you think? Read the story: Some angry, some agree with Cosby criticisms Renee Graham commentary: This Cosby show is undeserved

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This was in today's boston.com. What better to back Bill Cosby than this article! What are 14 & 15 yr old kids doing up at 1am & w/a 22 yr old man? Where were the parents!!!! Two teenagers and a young man were shot and wounded outside a Dorchester house early yesterday, Boston police said. Details on what led to the shootings were not available yesterday, but police said they were called to the East Street house shortly after 1 a.m. A 22-year-old man was found shot in the upper left arm; a 15-year-old girl was grazed on the upper right arm by a bullet; and a 14-year-old girl was shot in the upper left arm, police said. None of the victims were identified by police. Each was taken to Boston Medical Center, where the man and the 14-year-old remained yesterday. The 15-year-old was released. Police are investigating the shootings.

Melissa

He speaks the Truth and the truth can hurt....

Tsunamii

You go Coz!

Art

Bill is right on target with his comments. He's trying to help the community and look what happens.......... Has anyone ridden the subway when high school children are let out??? I have and it's pretty darn scary. I sometimes wonder what language is being spoken and can they utter a sentence with the F-bomb???!!!! Wake up.....this is the future of our country. Scares me a lot.

Kim

this is for Douglas response: I understand your sensitivity and appluad your ability to not judge. I however cannot claim the same. I also attended Northeastern - on an academic scholarship. That is until my second year when my father went from earning 35000 a year to a whopping 52000. My scholarship was dropped - even with a GPA of 3.8 out of 4 in honors classes - because we were too "wealthy" to get financial aid. Nevermind the past years where finances were very tight. But the monetary amount put us out of the "Need" category. So when I hear about how we need to do more for the poor and that I have been given so many opportunities, I have to disagree somewhat. As someone whose mother was on welfare for a grand total of about 2 months after a divorce, I get ticked at those who abuse the system. I'll never claim to be in the same position as a black, as a female, or as anyone else other than a white male, but I have worked for everything I've achieved - and had many things presented as obstacles simply because I was NOT in a minority group that made the demographic cut. Cosby is right - but not only for blacks. We are all Americans first and foremost- not Italian-Americans, not African-Americans. - our heritage sshould be cherished but so should our unity as citizens. Maybe if we think more in terms of respecting ourselves as part of a whole, we could make the whole respect us an individuals. Respect is earned, not a birthright.

jason

Totally agreed with Bill. This day and age everyone is too hush hush and want to be politically correct. IT IS THE TRUTH!!

Lorraine

If you ax me, Cosby was right!

Dave

I think he is being brutally honest. Somehow being illiterate and unable to speak the english language has become cool with kids today.

C J

I belive Mr. Cosby was being brutally honest. A lot a people want to blame society and people of other races for all of their set-backs or down-fall. I am African American and I don't blame anyone for anything, I took the initiative to go to school and learned that in order for me to succeed I need to speak proper english and not Ebonics.

LaToya

To content16@boston.com cc Subject Bill Cosby's comments Hometown Boston Its about time someone spoke out----THE TRUTH HURTS!!! Bill just spoke the truth and people can't handle it!!!

Joanne