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Does Cosby Help?
He’s railed at black kids for choosing bling over books. What they think—and what Cos must do to reach them
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By Ellis Cose
Dec. 27 / Jan. 3 issue - You would think the story would have died by now. What’s the big deal, after all, about Bill Cosby’s blasting a bunch of poor kids and their parents? While the initial salvo was fired months ago, the aftershocks are still being felt. Columnists continue to harp on Cosby’s statements, and the comedian has gone on a crusade, sermonizing across the land—and being received like a revered Biblical prophet.
“It is not all right for your 15-year-old daughter to have a child,” he told 2,400 fans in a high school in Milwaukee. He lambasted young men in Baltimore for knocking up “five, six girls.” He tongue-lashed single mothers in Atlanta for having sex within their children’s hearing “and then four days later, you bring another man into the house.” “The audience gasped,” reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
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He’s railed at black kids for choosing bling over books. What they think—and what Cos must do to reach them
MSN | Outlook, Office, Skype, Bing, Breaking News, and Latest Videos
Lauren Fleishman for Newsweek
Hard knocks: Hardeman, 16, was once beaten up after school for knowing the answers in classBy Ellis Cose
Dec. 27 / Jan. 3 issue - You would think the story would have died by now. What’s the big deal, after all, about Bill Cosby’s blasting a bunch of poor kids and their parents? While the initial salvo was fired months ago, the aftershocks are still being felt. Columnists continue to harp on Cosby’s statements, and the comedian has gone on a crusade, sermonizing across the land—and being received like a revered Biblical prophet.
“It is not all right for your 15-year-old daughter to have a child,” he told 2,400 fans in a high school in Milwaukee. He lambasted young men in Baltimore for knocking up “five, six girls.” He tongue-lashed single mothers in Atlanta for having sex within their children’s hearing “and then four days later, you bring another man into the house.” “The audience gasped,” reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Follow the link for more…
msnbc.msn.com/id/6732651/site/newsweek/?GT1=5936