Bill Cosby blasts black street slang The most successful black comedian in the US struck a transatlantic chord when he made an outspoken attack on the street slang used by many black people. At a Washington dinner to commemorate a landmark case which ended segregation in US schools, Bill Cosby shocked some by accusing poorer black families of failing to honour the sacrifices made by those who fought for civil rights. Cosby, born in a Philadelphia ghetto, said that by using "profane" language, black children thought they were hip but were squandering their opportunities and "going nowhere." And, in an interview with the Sunday Telegraph, he said the same message applied to youngsters in the UK, such as those at the Lilian Baylis School in south London, where staff are involved in a pilot project to stop pupils using a vocabulary based on a mixture of Creole patois and rappers' slang. It isn't a language that has anything to do with the credentials of higher education Bill Cosby's remarks to the Sunday Telegraph "In London, in places like Brixton, you need to hear this," he said. :clap: :clap: :clap: Well said that man. Its about time Blacks lost the chip of their shoulder and did something to help theirselfs.
