Yurt
05-01-2008, 09:06 PM
Cosby brings 'blunt' message to community leaders
Bill Cosby told several hundred people at a conference of community associations Thursday to stand up and confront the ills facing black Americans.
Repeating a mantra that has angered some black leaders who have accused him of downplaying the effects of long-term discrimination, he exhorted the audience several times to "stop looking for somebody to blame."
Characterizing his own words as "blunt, but not harsh," the 70-year-old comedian criticized a culture in which "babies are wearing $40 sneakers while their mothers are feeding them Oodles of Noodles."
Cosby deemed some of his critics "intellectual panhandlers" who enable destructive behavior by staying silent or blaming racism.
"You've got these idiots who've got these degrees and some of them are ordained ministers and they say, `Bill, you're picking on the poor,'" he said. He then drew laughs by adding, "Well, so did Jesus then. Jesus was always telling someone, `Go ye.' Jesus was always telling people to go somewhere. And `don't do this again or don't do that again.'"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/01/entertainment/e152824D60.DTL&tsp=1
i love the underlined.
Bill Cosby told several hundred people at a conference of community associations Thursday to stand up and confront the ills facing black Americans.
Repeating a mantra that has angered some black leaders who have accused him of downplaying the effects of long-term discrimination, he exhorted the audience several times to "stop looking for somebody to blame."
Characterizing his own words as "blunt, but not harsh," the 70-year-old comedian criticized a culture in which "babies are wearing $40 sneakers while their mothers are feeding them Oodles of Noodles."
Cosby deemed some of his critics "intellectual panhandlers" who enable destructive behavior by staying silent or blaming racism.
"You've got these idiots who've got these degrees and some of them are ordained ministers and they say, `Bill, you're picking on the poor,'" he said. He then drew laughs by adding, "Well, so did Jesus then. Jesus was always telling someone, `Go ye.' Jesus was always telling people to go somewhere. And `don't do this again or don't do that again.'"
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2008/05/01/entertainment/e152824D60.DTL&tsp=1
i love the underlined.