"What's wrong with these people?" That was the theme of a keynote speech given by Bill Cosby in May, 2004, at an NAACP-sponsored gala in Washington. On the stage of Constitution Hall, speaking from his heart to a multiracial audience, he told some home truths about the home folks. Watch the video.
How did the audience react? No prizes for guessing that they were none too pleased. Not everyone was laughing. What you don't see in the video clip is the rebuttal by Theodore Shaw, then head of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, who grabbed a microphone to tell the crowd that the problems "in the black community were not self-inflicted".
Poor Mr. Cosby. Ever since what is now called "the Pound Cake Speech", he has been denigrated [Now cut that out! Ed.] as an "Uncle Tom", a racist, a traitor to his people, etc. etc. All because he dared to say out loud what political correctness says may no longer be said.
Time magazine columnist Christopher John Farley summed it up this way: "Bill Cosby broke the unwritten rule of keeping black dirty laundry in black washing machines."
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