What’s with Bill Cosby ’shocked’ at Obama’s statement on Harvard prof’s arrest?
By Jimmy Orr | 07.23.09
On a Boston radio program this morning, Bill Cosby suggested that President Obama spoke too soon on the controversial arrest of Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates.
“I’ve heard about five different reports [on the details of the arrest],” Cosby said on Boston’s WZLX. “If I’m the president of the United States, I don’t care how much pressure people want to put on it about race, I’m keeping my mouth shut.”
“I was shocked to hear the president making this kind of statement,” Cosby said referring to the president’s remarks during last night’s press conference.
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/07/23/bill-cosby-shocked-at-obamas-statement-on-harvard-profs-arrest/
I dont know Bill Cosby personally but from my reading of his past statements, it is clear that he hates race baiters and how so many people have this burning desire to register race into every discussion even when it clearly has no bearing. What he is saying here is the the president should not be fueling the fire by commenting on a situation he knows little to nothing about.
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