Bill Cosby's sermon: Stand for something

jimmyjude · #1 (**permalink**) 04-17-2006, 03:29 AM

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Welcome to the First Reformed Interdenominational Methobyterian Bapti-Catholic Church of Truth That Sets You Free. The Most Honorary Rev. Bill Cosby is in the pulpit with a message for Easter.

"We're letting Jesus drag that cross and we're standing there saying 'Isn't it terrible? Somebody oughtta do something.' We're standing on the sidelines. All we want to know is, 'You got time to fix my elbow?' "

He was just warming up.

"I can feel your guilt," he said. "I can feel your shame. But most of all, I can feel how sedated you seem to be."

The standup comedian who used to ask "Why is there air?" now asks much tougher questions and has answers that some people don't want to hear. "Dr. Huxtable" was writing prescriptions at Xavier's Cintas Center on Thursday, and his tough medicine was greeted with waves of applause from an audience of 1,200, 90 percent black.

I expected him to say something outrageous to rile up the Political Correctness Police who misplaced their sense of humor in the 1960s and can't spot the honest truth in a police lineup of bald-faced lies.

But it turns out that the most outrageous thing is what some people find outrageous.

Education: "If your child has never asked you a question about what he is studying, you are not protecting that child. And if you're not doing it, be ashamed of yourself ... I want someone to say to them, 'Where is your damn homework?' "

Dropouts: "The graduation (ratio) for black women to men is 70-30. I feel sorry and sad for all these highly educated females who are so intelligent and have no educated men to marry."

Drugs: "If you have heard a child say, 'I'm going to stop flipping burgers and go out and make some real money selling drugs,' did you stop that idiot and say, 'You don't flip burgers for the rest of your life. You do it until you can be manager of the burger-flipping place'?"

Parenting: "When are you going to challenge them about CDs full of vulgarity and profanity? ... When are you going to challenge them with, 'I want to know who your friends are before you leave this apartment'?"

Cosby asked foster parents, grandmothers, aunts and uncles who raise someone else's children to applaud, then pointed to the crowd: "There's your reality."

But some are too blind to see it. So they twist his words into attacks on the poor.

"Anyone who comes here is going to say he came out of love and concern," said Cosby's agent, Joel Brokaw. "He could be sitting at home enjoying his life, but he came on his own dime."

I guess some will say, "Aha, I told you so," pointing at the speck in the eye of the black community. Is there anyone who doesn't need Cosby's sermon?

And some are panic-stricken: "How can he say this after we have worked so hard to outlaw the truth as racist?"

Cosby's style was as casual and comfortable as his khaki cargo pants and baggy Xavier sweat shirt.

But the message from another speaker, Hamilton County Coroner O'dell Owens, was as sharp as a scalpel:

"I speak for the dead," he said. "And the dead say to me now, 'No more, no more, no more.' Say it to your young children."

It's too late for hundreds of shooting victims, sucked under in a flood of mindless violence that is lapping at the steps of City Hall, still rising.

But as we try to resurrect a better Cincinnati this spring, maybe Cosby's sermon is right on time. Let's hope.

That's what Easter is all about.

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jimmyjude · #2 (**permalink**) 05-07-2006, 03:07 PM

bill Cosby is a good person.

He has wandered off the poverty pimp welfare plantation though and that is why the NYT alternately demonizes and ignores him.

johnnyturk! · #3 (**permalink**) 05-08-2006, 12:27 PM

Good for him. I like it.

jimmyjude · #4 (**permalink**) 05-08-2006, 02:36 PM

I like him too. It seems that he is coming to some REAL understanding late in life.

johnnyturk! · #5 (**permalink**) 05-09-2006, 12:06 PM

no other comments on this?

jimmyjude · #6 (**permalink**) 05-09-2006, 01:08 PM

The libbies want to either silence or demonize Cosby because he is not following the party (welfare plantation) line.

johnnyturk! · #7 (**permalink**) 05-09-2006, 09:03 PM

seems that way

dredloct · #8 (**permalink**) 05-10-2006, 02:19 PM

Man I think that Bill Cosby is right on with his ideas. I think his reasons for explaining why not to sell drugs may be a little incomplete because drug dealers make more than McDonalds Managers too. But other than that....Preach it Bill!

johnnyturk! · #9 (**permalink**) 05-11-2006, 06:32 AM

Awesome. Again no reply from the left.

jimmyjude · #10 (**permalink**) 05-11-2006, 01:34 PM

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Originally Posted by dredloct

Man I think that Bill Cosby is right on with his ideas. I think his reasons for explaining why not to sell drugs may be a little incomplete because drug dealers make more than McDonalds Managers too. But other than that....Preach it Bill!

You are completey wrong about this.

Drug dealers make less than minimum wage. Only the top member of the drug gangs make money.

In the book Freakonomics this was proven unequivocally.