“You have to know that it is time for you all to take charge,” Cosby said. “You have to seriously see yourselves not as the old women where the men stood in front and you all stood behind, because the men, most of them are in prison.”
“It is time for you to pick up the pace and lead because the men are not there. They’re not there and every one of you young women know it.”
When one of the 500 members of the graduating class accepted her diploma, Cosby said, “there’s no time for you to fool around anymore. …You’ve got to [get serious] because our race depends upon you and your sisters graduating all across the United States to realize that what’s left is you.”
Cosby told the graduates that the same male students who are dropping out of high school “have memorized the lyrics of very difficult rap songs. …And they know how to send their sperm cells out and then walk away from the responsibility of something called fatherhood.”
Cosby said his comments were not directed to all black males, but noted that 70 percent of black graduates this year are female (read more)..
