Comic legend recalls the Birmingham bombing, talks parenting and responsibility

Sep 16, 2013 14:43 GMT  ·  By

Comic legend Bill Cosby was on Don Lemon’s CNN Newsroom the other night, on a panel remembering the 1963 bombing of a Baptist Church in Birmingham by the Ku Klux Klan.

In the video above, Cosby talks about why it’s important to remember such a tragedy as this one, which killed four little girls and injured hundreds, and how he will do whatever in his power to make sure an event of this kind is never overlooked.

On the same panel, Cosby also talked about education and parenting (and how parents should be more responsible towards their offspring), overmedication in juvenile prisons, and even coined the term “No-groes.”

“If you drug these people, and then you release them, and there’s no prescription for them to get to take to do the same thing, and they go back to the same place. Now, about this time, this is when you hear the no-groes jump up and say ‘Why don’t you talk about the good things?’,” the star said.