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You hear Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, but why not Bill Cosby?
Great article....
Bill Cosby Gives New Orleans Blacks A Tough Love Message
Apr 8 2006 02:30 AM
By DutchMartin
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Ever since Bill Cosby showed major testicular fortitude in May 2004 by publicly reprimanding low-income blacks to get their act together (airing black dirty laundry - gasp!), he has occupied a spot on my list of black heroes who aren't afraid to speak about about the reasons behind black inner-city pathology. As the article below shows, whereas Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are still singing the same old Black Victimology tune, "the Cos'" sent a message that the black residents of New Orleans have needed to hear for a very long time. If there was any justice in the world, Bill Cosby would be Chairman of the NAACP (instead of the radical leftist knucklehead, Julian Bond).
From Newsmax.com Monday, April 3, 2006 11:42 p.m. EDT BILL COSBY LECTURES NEW ORLEANS BLACKS Humorist Bill Cosby lectured black residents of New Orleans over the weekend, saying their community was "wounded" by crime even before Hurricane Katrina ravaged the city and killed their neighbors. "It's painful, but we can't cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound," Cosby told the rally of about 2,000 people at the city's convention center, where thousands of Katrina evacuees had gathered seven months earlier. "Ladies and gentlemen, you had the highest murder rate, unto each other. You were dealing drugs to each other. You were impregnating our 13-, 12-, 11-year-old children," he said, in quotes picked up by Reuters. "What kind of a village is that?" Meanwhile, Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, who were also on hand for the rally, seemed to contradict Cosby's message of self reliance. Jackson focused instead on what he said were federal and state efforts to "disenfranchise" New Orleans voters for the upcoming primary elections. He urged election officials to make satellite polling places available to ensure that still displaced Katrina evacuees would be able to vote in the April 22 contest. "If we in fact can use this technology for Mexican-Americans and Mexico, then we ought to," Jackson said. "If we can use this technology for Iraqi-Americans in America to Baghdad, then we ought to. We can use the same technology for New Orleanians, wherever they are in America." New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin, who presided over the Katrina disaster, is expected to lose the primary to Lieutenant Gov. Mitch Landrieu - in part because so many of his constituents are now scattered throughout the nation.
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