Bill Cosby Visits Milwaukee North Division High School

Meg Kissinger & Mark Johnson:

He pilloried the media.

Cosby, who was criticized for comments last spring by some who thought he was too harsh on young African-Americans, saved much of his venom for the media. Looking at the scores of reporters in the crowd, he said:

"They won't show up again until you kill somebody. They don't show up and write about you until your test scores are so damn low and they can prove that you're not smart. They don't care about you.

"We are letting TV sets raise our children," he said. "A transformation has to take place.

Eugene Kane summarizes the visit here. Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel Editorial

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Posted by Jim Zellmer at October 21, 2004 9:53 AM
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