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Tuesday and today Howard University is hosting the Children's Defense Fund National Summit, which includes panel discussions on the Cradle to Prison Pipeline® Initiative, a project that seeks to end the cycle of poor minority children ending up destined to be shuffled in and out of the country's prison system. Yesterday Bill Cosby appeared on a panel titled "The Need for Personal and Community Responsibility" in conjunction with the summit, along with NPR's Juan Williams and Dr. Robert Michael Franklin Jr., president of Morehouse College.
In this clip posted to YouTube, Cosby goes after former Reliable Source columnist at the Washington Post, Richard Leiby, for the famous column he penned in 2004 where he quoted Cosby blaming lower-income African Americans for cultural problems in black America. Cosby says that Leiby left parts of his 2004 statements out "on purpose" which made him out to be someone "who doesn't like poor people."
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I'm sure the Nation's poor minority children are waiting with baited breath to see how much ink is spilled in the inevitable bitchfest between a millionaire and a lefty journalist. Because, y'know, they're all about national summits and building consensus and stuff.
Can't we just dump all the kids on an island like they did in Lord of the Flies? Those guys turned out alright, and they learned a valuable lesson about sharing. Or how about The Most Dangerous Game? All those years of playing Halo and Metal Gear need to be put to good use and the lil porkers could stand to lose some weight. Just to sweeten the pot, have the kids hunt Cosby and Leiby and offer the winner a lifetime supply of Jello Pudding Pops. Isn't that why god invented pay-per-view?
You, of all people, ought to know why god invented pay-per-view.
Those Lord of the Flies kids were all well educated British private school kids, who not only had their educational foundation but also a highly rigid British class system upon which to base their behaviors.
But regardless, adults should never discuss pedagogy or make any kind of consensus decisions are better for their children. Children should continue to get their education from the street and I hope terrorize your Hill neighborhood, breaking into your cars and selling crack out of your Starbucks.
I'll admit my first preference is not poor children. I prefer the fatter middle class kids. It does take more barbecue sauce to cover them completely, but it's worth it. Plus, four drumsticks. What's not to love?
No no no... poor kids have to work hard, and are thus tough and gristly, but middle class kids just accumulate thick fatty layers; since kids are closer to cows than to chickens or ducks, drumsticks are pointless, and since we don't care about crispy skin on our cow analogues, fatty layers are bad. The thing to do, then, is to get your kids from upper-class families that can feed them well but also provide leisurely massages so they come out well-marbled like a goood Wagyu.
Good point, Guest 5. But I saw a newborn recently whose drumsticks were just the right size.
when you say lefty journalist, surely you dont mean juan williams!! or someone affiliated with the washington post? guess these labels are relative, arent they?
Guest number 7 sounds pretty juicy.
But the thing about wagyu and kobe beef is not just a steady diet of beer, but daily massaging by the owner's family. Only then will the layers of fat marble properly into the muscle tissue. The usual sedentary lifestyle of youthful affluence would not result in a kobe-style child, unless the parents invested in a masseuse.
To that extent, rich kids would benefit from quick searing and grilling at high temperature, as opposed to their gristlier counterparts on the other end of the economic scale, who are built for slow braising, ragouts, barbecuing, or even dry smoking for jerky.
Juan Williams on the other hand is fairly lean, and would benefit from an overnight brining with a 1-to-1 salt/sugar mix, perhaps with a few spices like cloves or coriander to take away the bitter smugness.
That'd be some mighty powerful cloves.
I said to look for upper-class kids who got massages, Monkey. And cloves would just cover bitter flavors; if you really want to take away Williams' bitter smugness, you need to bring fats into the equation (like adding some milk to cut an astringent Juan Williams tea), or maybe some monophosphate salts (like AMP, which conveniently shows up in human breast milk, the key to a truly tasty Williams tea treat).
-- Guest 5 Redux (whose own fat is woefully under-marbled).