We Are Not Parenting

I came across this the other day in Townhall Magazine. Bill Cosby gave a speech May 17, 2004 at the NAACP's 50th Anniversary of Brown v Board of Education event. It pitted liberals across the country against the famous entertainer. Here are some excerpts.
No longer is a person embarrassed because they're pregnant without a husband. No longer is a boy considered an embarrassment if he tries to run away from being the father of the unmarried child.
Ladies and gentlemen, the lower economic and lower-middle economic people are not holding their end in this deal. In the neighborhood that most of us grew up in, parenting is not going on....
I'm talking about these people who cry when their son is standing there in an orange suit. Where were you when he was two? Where were you when he was 12? Where were you when he was 18, and how come you don't know he had a pistol? And where is his father, and why don't you know where he is? And why doesn't the father show up to talk to this boy?

We cannot blame white people. White people don't live over there....

This is and incredibly politically incorrect speech, with the Rev. Jesse Jackson looking on, probably glaring at Cosby as he delivers a powerful plea to black Americans to seize the fullness of the American Dream. Then I read this. Obviously there are a lot of people who consider the right of procreating to be an entitlement, the results of which should be borne by the rest of society. I have often and still do wonder why this is so and find it unfathomable that the tide cannot be turned. Evidently entitlements are things we get to do or we receive without any responsibility. Without getting too crude about it I wonder what the savings in the treasury would be if people could act like humans instead of animals wandering the land and control their passions with the brains God gave them.

You made it, you take care of it. That would be kind of patriotic wouldn't it?