Saturday, May 5, 2018

EXCERPT FROM BILL COSBY'S POUND CAKE SPEECH FOR COSBY DEFENDERS POST VERDICT


...Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower middle economic people are holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on. (clapping) In the old days, you couldn’t hooky school because every drawn shade was an eye (laughing). And before your mother got off the bus and to the house, she knew exactly where you had gone, who had gone into the house, and where you got on whatever you had one and where you got it from. Parents don’t know that today.

I’m talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? (clapping) Where were you when he was twelve? (clapping) Where were you when he was eighteen, and how come you don’t know he had a pistol? (clapping) And where is his father, and why don’t you know where he is? And why doesn’t the father show up to talk to this boy?
The church is only open on Sunday. And you can’t keep asking Jesus to ask doing things for you (clapping). You can’t keep asking that God will find a way. God is tired of you (clapping and laughing). God was there when they won all those cases. 50 in a row. That’s where God was because these people were doing something. And God said, “I’m going to find a way.” I wasn’t there when God said it… I’m making this up (laughter). But it sounds like what God would do (laughter).
We cannot blame white people. White people (clapping) .. white people don’t live over there. They close up the shop early. The Korean ones still don’t know us as well…they stay open 24 hours (laughter)....

You cannot get a full appreciation of Bill Cosby's POUND CAKE SPEECH by hearing it. His delivery is Jello Pudding Man funny. I was laughing too, thinking he's simply an old man worried about low hanging pants (which I can't stand either - but doesn't make me question anyone's fitness to be identified as black). But when he said the anybody black who is lower middle class is letting down the race, I started listening harder.

  • Jello Pudding Man comedic delivery was still getting in my way, as far as coming to full understanding of what was truly being said.  
  • So, I read it. 
  • I suggest you read it too 


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