At a conference of community associations ON THURSDAY, Bill Cosby urged the audience to stand up and confront the ills facing black Americans and “stop looking for somebody to blame.”
Speaking about the responsibilities of families in raising children, Cosby characterized his words as “blunt, but not harsh.”
“I haven’t seen the demonstrations saying, ‘I’m not allowing my children to listen to this,’” he said at the conference, hosted by Family Intervention Services and Newark Now, an organization formed by Newark, NJ Mayor Cory Booker. “It’s killing us. We’re not talking about it, and we’re not beating it down,” referring to radio stations that play music he called “pro-murder and anti-women”.
Booker called Cosby “a critical voice right now in the American context” and praised his willingness to speak out on issues without bowing to political correctness:
“This is a time for candor — we can’t beat around the bush,” Booker said. “We’ve got large percentages of our population that are underachieving. He’s speaking to the heart of the matter, and he speaks to the realities of what a lot of folks are experiencing.”
Cosby called 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.’”
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