{"id":5219,"date":"2004-07-02T14:59:00","date_gmt":"2004-07-02T14:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5219"},"modified":"2021-06-13T21:00:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-13T21:00:21","slug":"cosby-brings-his-frank-talk-to-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/07\/02\/cosby-brings-his-frank-talk-to-town\/","title":{"rendered":"Cosby brings his frank talk to town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chicagotribune.com\/news\/local\/northshore\/chi-0407020322jul02,1,4642744.story?coll=chi-newslocalnorthshore-hed\">Cosby brings his frank talk to town<\/a><br \/>\nActor stands by earlier remarks<br \/>\nThe Chicago Tribune<br \/>\nBy Jamal Watson<br \/>\nTribune staff reporter<br \/>\nJuly 2, 2004<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Despite a storm of criticism, Bill Cosby&#8217;s unvarnished call for African-Americans to take responsibility for their actions has not changed.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, his talk Thursday at the Rainbow\/PUSH Coalition&#8217;s annual conference in Chicago was every bit as forceful as a speech he gave in May in Washington that drew protests from across the nation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the time, ladies and gentlemen, when we have to turn the mirror around and look at ourselves,&#8221; said Cosby, whose tough talk at the Sheraton Chicago Hotel &#038; Towers was greeted with applause and cheers. &#8220;We need to stop this. We cannot protect ourselves if the picture of ourselves is in a trough.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cosby brings his frank talk to town Actor stands by earlier remarks The Chicago Tribune By Jamal Watson Tribune staff reporter July 2, 2004 Despite a storm of criticism, Bill Cosby&#8217;s unvarnished call for&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7988,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[63,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1mb","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5219"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7292,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5219\/revisions\/7292"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}