I Think This Is Defined As “Failure” January 28, 2008
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Speaking at the annual PUSH Excel Martin Luther King Jr. scholarship breakfast Monday, comedian Bill Cosby focused on an issue that crosses racial lines: parenting.
“People don’t know how to parent, and they don’t care,” he said. “Babies are having babies.”
It’s not uncommon to find households with 15-year-old parents, grandparents in their early 30s and great-grandparents who are only 45, Cosby said at the Sheraton hotel in downtown Chicago.
Rev. Jesse Jackson put those comments into perspective, saying King finished high school at 15, graduated from Morehouse College at 19 and finished the seminary at 22.
By the time he was assassinated at 39, he had changed the world.
So, the system that MLK opposed had him as a high school graduate at 15, and a Th.D. at 22. Because he got his way in the civil rights movement (and HRC is totally right about how it came about), his people are parents instead of high school graduates at 15, grandparents instead of college graduates in their early 30s, and great-grandparents instead of doctorates and world-changers at 45.
