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.”
