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Bill Cosby was on Meet the Press this morning for the full hour. A transcript is available here. MSNBC will rebroadcast the show at 6 p.m. ET Sunday night and again at 2 a.m. ET. Cosby's new book is titled "Come On, People: On the Path from Victims to Victors." Excerpts are here. His co-author is Dr. Alvin Poussaint of Harvard Med., and he was also on the program. Cosby acknowledges that racism still exists and remains a huge problem, but parenting and especially teaching personal responsibility should be the primary focus.

You can’t feel that they’re—that, “Well, it’s the system, and that’s why it”—no, bring your children in. If you say that “my black child is going to do more time for selling crack cocaine than your white child for selling cocaine, then I’m going to tell my black child, ‘Don’t sell it. Here’s what’s happening, son.’” It’s the same as warning your kid that the Ku Klux Klan is coming. Don’t tell me you can’t help it.

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