{"id":901,"date":"2006-04-04T06:39:22","date_gmt":"2006-04-04T11:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-cos-on-the-cleanup\/"},"modified":"2006-04-04T06:47:30","modified_gmt":"2006-04-04T11:47:30","slug":"the-cos-on-the-cleanup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-cos-on-the-cleanup","title":{"rendered":"The Cos on the Cleanup"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bill Cosby spoke at a rally in NO,LA about reconstruction<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Cosby, whose criticism of some aspects of modern African-American culture has stirred controversy in recent years, told a rally headed by black leaders that the city needed to look at the “wound” it had before Katrina struck.<\/p>\n

“It’s painful, but we can’t cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound,” Cosby told the rally of about 2,000 people in front of the city’s convention center.<\/p>\n

“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.<\/p>\n

“What kind of a village is that?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In yesterday’s Washington Post, Pastor Johnny Ray Youngblood also discussed the introspective portion of the rebuilding process<\/a>:<\/p>\n

With Katrina, as with East Brooklyn and North Philadelphia and Southeast Washington, the way out is straight ahead. We have to act our way out of this — as in constructive action by hopeful actors who work with a trowel in one hand and a sword in the other.<\/p>\n

We have to raise our own money, not just wrestle over government money. We have to find our own housing sites. We have to hire and monitor builders and developers who work for us, not for some bureaucrat in Washington.<\/p>\n

We have to deflect all the hustlers and talkers within our community who see this catastrophe as just another opportunity to shake people down and line their pockets.<\/p>\n

We have to see this as a generational struggle — 10 years, maybe 20 — not as a quick fix.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bill Cosby spoke at a rally in NO,LA about reconstruction: Cosby, whose criticism of some aspects of modern African-American culture has stirred controversy in recent years, told a rally headed by black leaders that the city needed to look at the “wound” it had before Katrina struck. “It’s painful, but we can’t cleanse ourselves unless … <\/p>\n

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