{"id":5381,"date":"2004-12-21T12:56:43","date_gmt":"2004-12-21T12:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/multiracial.com\/?p=5381"},"modified":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","modified_gmt":"2021-06-09T23:09:43","slug":"ellis-cose-does-cosby-help","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/2004\/12\/21\/ellis-cose-does-cosby-help\/","title":{"rendered":"Ellis Cose: Does Cosby Help?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek<br \/>\nEllis Cose: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/6732651\/site\/newsweek\/\">Does Cosby Help?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>He&#8217;s railed at black kids for choosing bling over books. What they think-and what Cos must do to reach them&gt;&gt; You would think the story would have died by now. What&#8217;s the big deal, after all, about Bill Cosby&#8217;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&#8217;s statements, and the comedian has gone on a crusade, sermonizing across the land-and being received like a revered Biblical prophet. &#8220;It is not all right for your 15-year-old daughter to have a child,&#8221; he told 2,400 fans in a high school in Milwaukee. He lambasted young men in Baltimore for knocking up &#8220;five, six girls.&#8221; He tongue-lashed single mothers in Atlanta for having sex within their children&#8217;s hearing &#8220;and then four days later, you bring another man into the house.&#8221; &#8220;The audience gasped,&#8221; reported The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek Ellis Cose: Does Cosby Help? He&#8217;s railed at black kids for choosing bling over books. What they think-and what Cos must do to reach them&gt;&gt; You would think the story would have died&#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":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10,63,141],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-mixed-blog","category-a-d-powells-view","category-news-clips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/AD-Powell.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p89tuq-1oN","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381","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=5381"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5651,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5381\/revisions\/5651"}],"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=5381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multiracial.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}