Evin Cosby can relate to criticism Sen. Barack Obama has to face about being a member of the African-American elite.
“My own people used to say to me, ‘You speak like a white woman,’” said the youngest daughter of Bill and Camille Cosby at her chic new boutique, PB & Caviar, in Tribeca.
“What does that even mean, anyway? Everyone has their way of speaking and living their life. No one should be judging and assuming that because I’m black, I have to speak in that hip-hop way. That’s something I prefer not to do.”
The presidential candidate graduated from Harvard Law School – which some people use as an excuse to say he’s out of touch with the African-American poor — even though he was a community organizer for years.
“I always went to private schools – Bank Street elementary, Columbia Prep – so I was surrounded by people like me. Not so much African-American, but privileged. I don’t really have a connection to other people who didn’t have my lifestyle. But my dad is very into helping people from his own community in Philadelphia.”
The beauty also studied fashion design at F.I.T., and she’s put it to use advising customers at her comfy shop at 88 Thomas St., near the Odeon. Cosby carries such labels as Vanita Rose, Anna Sui, Sestra Moja and Interluid for women, as well as clothing for children – thus the “peanut butter & caviar” name.
Her comedian father encouraged her to open her own business, and it must be working. She opened the doors Thursday night and says she’s already sold 36 pairs of Heelarius high-heels for babies.
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