MR. [DAVID] GREGORY: And here you are on–have been on this journey in the course of your life and career, now you’re on this journey to get people as angry as you are, as you’ve said in, in a speech. What do you expect of this new president, who happens to be our first black president?
MR. [BILL] COSBY: Change, challenge for all of us. I believe he’s asking us to be honest. I, I, I believe he’s, he’s asking us to be honest. I believe he’s asking us to look around and see in all honesty what we can do and what makes sense as opposed to what will go into our pockets or make us feel good or who we can punish according to our religion. I think it’s time for all of us to, to do things in terms of community, to stop worrying about what other people think of us and, and just go right on in and begin to talk to our youngsters about correct choices, to not be afraid to, to challenge them and be honest with them and, and, and to not be afraid to just stand and, and work with him and think that we’re working with him to make change and choices and challenge.
MR. GREGORY: One of the things that really strikes me about this book, “Come On, People,” is that as a parent with three young kids, I think it just has a transcendent message.
MR. COSBY: Yes.
MR. GREGORY: Which is that parenting matters.
MR. COSBY: Yes.
MR. GREGORY: That you got to be involved in your kids’ lives, you got to let, let them know that, that you love them.