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COSBY CARRIES SOAP BOX TO NEW ORLEANS: Comedian tells blacks to leave crime element out of rebuilding efforts.
*Entertainer Bill Cosby was in New Orleans Saturday urging its black population to rebuild the city without the pervasive culture of crime that existed before Hurricane Katrina washed everything away.
Cosby, known for his controversial criticism of some working class African Americans, said the city needed to make sure that the "wound" of crime would not be reopened and allowed to fester.
"It's painful, but we can't cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound," Cosby said at a rally headed by black leaders in front of the city's convention center. "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. What kind of a village is that?"
Other speakers, including civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, inevitably turned their attention to the recent decision by a judge not to delay the April 22 local elections so that evacuees – most of whom are African American – can be assured access to the polls.
Jackson said evacuees should be allowed to vote in "satellite" polling places outside the state, just as Iraqi and Mexican expatriates have cast ballots from the United States in elections in their home countries.
"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."
Voting stations will be available at 10 sites in Louisiana outside of New Orleans, but state officials have said casting ballots outside the state is prohibited.
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As a fool, I am glad I did not agree with him the first time and now this time.
Black people I wish could operate independantly from "others" in the US but we dont. That has to be considered. But Cosby thinks we can do it while he tells "others".
*Entertainer Bill Cosby was in New Orleans Saturday urging its black population to rebuild the city without the pervasive culture of crime that existed before Hurricane Katrina washed everything away.
Cosby, known for his controversial criticism of some working class African Americans, said the city needed to make sure that the "wound" of crime would not be reopened and allowed to fester.
"It's painful, but we can't cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound," Cosby said at a rally headed by black leaders in front of the city's convention center. "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. What kind of a village is that?"
Other speakers, including civil rights activists Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, inevitably turned their attention to the recent decision by a judge not to delay the April 22 local elections so that evacuees – most of whom are African American – can be assured access to the polls.
Jackson said evacuees should be allowed to vote in "satellite" polling places outside the state, just as Iraqi and Mexican expatriates have cast ballots from the United States in elections in their home countries.
"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."
Voting stations will be available at 10 sites in Louisiana outside of New Orleans, but state officials have said casting ballots outside the state is prohibited.
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As a fool, I am glad I did not agree with him the first time and now this time.
Black people I wish could operate independantly from "others" in the US but we dont. That has to be considered. But Cosby thinks we can do it while he tells "others".