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In 2004, Bill Cosby caused controversy when he vehemently criticized low-income blacks for what he viewed as a lack of parental responsibility and misplaced priorities.

He urged black men to “stop beating your women because you can’t get a job,” and lambasted urban blacks for poor grammar.

Now, the Cos is back with more scathing—and constructive—criticism for black America.

Cosby appeared on “Meet the Press” Sunday to plug his new book, “Come on People: On the Path from Victims to Victors.” The book talks about the state of the black family, high incarceration and dropout rates among black men, and once again, the need for more parental responsibility.

Cosby on the Black Community Then and Now

‘For the last generation or two, as our communities have dissolved and as our parenting skills broke down, no one has suffered more than our young black men”

Cosby on the Black Family

“Many of these fathers don’t know what to do as a father because many of them grew up in homes that were fatherless. So what’s the model fo a two-parent home or for a family? Or what is the model for corrective behavior?  If you have this generational, fatherless situation, unwed father or whatever, but the male is not there, then it registers on another person, on the child, as abandonment.”

Cosby on the Drug Problem in Urban Communities

“There’s a domino effect that the dealer—and we’ve heard this over and over—feels, “Well, what else, what else can I do?  I might as well do that.” The more we see it in neighborhoods, the more we will accept it that we can’t help it.  And what we need to do is give people more of a confidence that they can.  They must realize that the revolution is in their apartment now.  The revolution is in their house, their neighborhood, and then they can fight strongly, clearly the systemic and the institutional racism.”

Cosby on the Music Industry

“It’s the people who make these records.  It’s the guy in the boardroom.  I have another friend of mine who said to me, “I write rap lyrics.” He said, “And I went to a man”—I mean, “I went to work, and the guy said, the executive said to me, ‘I want lyrics about rape.  Rape is good.’” He said, “And I looked at the guy, and I said, ‘You’re talking about my mother.’ And the guy said, ‘Well, if you don’t want to write it, then I’ll get somebody else who will.’” But see, all these things, this dopamine-raising level.  Alvin has a very interesting viewpoint on whether or not kids are listening to the lyrics.  Because if you challenge them, you say, “Why are you listening to that?” They say, “I’m not listening to the words.  I just like the beat.”

Cosby on his Criticism of the Black Community

“Let me tell you something.  Your dirty laundry gets out of school at 2:30 every day.  It’s cursing and it’s calling each other niggers as they walk up and down the street.  They think they’re hip.  They can’t read; they can’t write.  Fifty percent of them. It’s about them and their cursing and grabbing each other and laughing and giggling and going nowhere.  And the book bags are very, very thin because there’s no books in them. The people know exactly what I’m saying.  See, a great deal of the negative is about people not wanting so much attention in that area, but it has to come out.  If it is what it is —and that is a horrible, horrible problem— then we must direct ourselves to it. ”

Cosby isn’t the only one talking, bloggers are also weighing in. Some interesting links:

The Chief Source

Whose America Is it Anyway?

Celebizzy

Thoughts on Paper

Cobb’s Blog

AOL Black Voices