I wonder what made Cosby snap.

Bill Cosby is at it again - lambasting the black community for its rampant illiteracy and illegitimacy rates.

You have to wonder where he's been on this issue throughout his career. He's always created good role models for the black community - even Fat Albert & the Cosby Kids taught positive lessons to youngsters of all stripes. So, I guess publicly, his message has been pretty consistent. However, I'd long read that Mr. Cosby privately had quite a disdain for whitey - hence my confusion.

Cosby elaborated Thursday on his previous comments in a talk interrupted several times by applause. He castigated some blacks, saying that they cannot simply blame whites for problems such as teen pregnancy and high school dropout rates.

"For me there is a time ... when we have to turn the mirror around," he said. "Because for me it is almost analgesic to talk about what the white man is doing against us. And it keeps a person frozen in their seat, it keeps you frozen in your hole you're sitting in."

Cosby lamented that the racial slurs once used by those who lynched blacks are now a favorite expression of black children. And he blamed parents.

"When you put on a record and that record is yelling 'n----- this and n----- that' and you've got your little 6-year-old, 7-year-old sitting in the back seat of the car, those children hear that," he said.

He also condemned black men who missed out on opportunities and are now angry about their lives.

"You've got to stop beating up your women because you can't find a job, because you didn't want to get an education and now you're (earning) minimum wage," Cosby said. "You should have thought more of yourself when you were in high school, when you had an opportunity."

I wonder how much backlash he'll get from this one.