He has been feted by Black colleges and churches. Cosby received accolades in the white and Black bourgeois media for his "courage,” for “telling it like it is.” The Democratic Party warmly welcomed his support. He has since carried his campaign across the nation, and support for his campaign isn’t coming only from the far right. ![]() ![]() In the same speech he spewed out a litany of racist and anti-working-class claims. This scandalous harangue was only the beginning. Thus he makes light of hundreds of brutal slayings-like that of Amadou Diallo, who was shot 41 times in New York in 1999 for having his own wallet in his hand. Unlike the justified mass outrage that he mocks, Cosby is outraged at the thought of protests over cops killing kids who supposedly commit petty thievery. People getting shot in the back of the head over a piece of pound cake and then we run out and we are outraged, “The cops shouldn’t have shot him.” What the hell was he doing with the pound cake in his hand? His tirade hit its low point when he gave a cover for racist police murders: These are people going around stealing Coca-Cola. Cosby’s speech contemptuously denounced working-class Black parents and youth as responsible for social ills like unemployment that blight the Black community. Board of Education decision against segregation in public schools. on May 17, 2004, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown vs. 74 (Spring 2005).Ĭosby’s Campaign Against Black Workers by Sy Landyīill Cosby, the wealthy liberal Black comedian, has become the point man for a vicious attack on what he calls the Black “lower economic people.” It began at a NAACP gala in Washington D.C. ![]() The following article appears in Proletarian Revolution No.
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