Inappropriate Bill Cosby Graduation Speech

Most Commencement speakers deliver a message of hope, inspiration, and wisdom. In 2003, Bill Cosby delivered a scornful rant to a group of HBCU graduates,

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[MondoBeno]

Come on, this isn't scornful, he's telling it like it is. But I think he's talking to the wrong audience. A college graduation audience doesn't need to hear this. If he were addressing the BET awards, then it would gain stronger reactions.

[DisturbedLion]

@MondoBeno Exactly my point. Thanks for getting it.

[zazfilm]

APPROPRIATE bill cosby graduation speech!!!!

[Cynseven]

Black people have done more to keep themselves down than any klansman could ever dream of doing. Very sad

[bebopdad]

Real speech, not inappropriate! The word is SOBERING! Thanks for the video showing the lynchings.

[moose5409]

He really cares about our kids. He is saying what parents should be saying, they did in he past, why not now?

[bossyboots55]

the truth is hard to take. I THINK he was trying to push a message to these young people . make them sit up and listen and not make the same mistakes. listen up.

[Semiomniscient]

Since I teach at a school where we have literally, ALL "thank you Lordy" graduates... I can say that this is a perfect commencement speech for the right audience.

[vwarrenjackson]

Mr. Cosby's speech was not inappropriate, I was a teenage mother with a absent Mom & Dad with no Grandparents to raise me I wish some one had been around to talk to me.......

[BenjaminKuruga]

@DisturbedLion Read my comment again, I never said anything about a prison.

[DisturbedLion]

@BenjaminKuruga He wasn't speaking at a prison... He was speaking at a college graduation.

[NYVoice]

Apparently it wasn't THAT misappropriate. Only 6000 hits?