Bill Cosby's Speech: Brown Vs. Board Of Education

Many know Bill Cosby from his success as an America comedian, actor, author, etc, but what he's best at is providing his many words of wisdom as an African America educator. Bill Cosby address to the National Association for Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) on the 50th anniversary of Brown vs. Board of Education goes down as one of the top speeches in America. His speech given at this ceremony was directed straight to the younger generation of the African-American community. He begins the speech with a statement he heard a prize fight manager say to his fellow who was losing badly, “David, listen to me. It's not what he's doing to you. It's what you're not doing.” This statement was a very significant feature in this speech because it centers around many things he mentions such as the school drop-out rates and juvenile delinquencies and young women and men disgracing themselves. All those things are what generates the speech as a whole. Cosby main reason and focus was how African-Americans were putting higher priorities on other things such as music, fashion and money other than education,
He talks about how the neighborhoods where he and others of his time grew up in aren't the same anymore in a sense of parenting. He states that he remembers when kids couldn't “hooky” school because every drawn shade was an eye meaning everyone around knew one if not both of the parents and at the end of the day parents knew every move that had made that day. Parents don't know that now and because of the non-parenting you see these parents crying over their son sitting across from them in a handcuffs. Then Cosby begins to make things more realistic to the parents by revolving questions around the situation in order to help them see why things are the way they