Chris Tucker, Judge Marvin Arrington, Judge Belinda Edwards and Bill Cosby hold hands in prayer. ( view more pictures )
Judge Marvin Arrington, who ordered white lawyers out of his courtroom last month, and Bill Cosby spoke at a forum for at-risk youths from the Atlanta area last week. Chris Tucker also attended the event and urged audience members to find something they’re passionate about, otherwise it’s very easy to get into trouble, he said.
Cosby, who has criticized the black community in the past, noted the apathy among black Americans about violence, drugs, profanity and teenage sex has sunk to a level of asking someone to “pass the salt”.
“Our children are trying to tell us something,” Cosby said to the invitation-only crowd of about 600, which included teenagers identified as “at-risk” by juvenile authorities.
Judge Arrington said Cosby contacted him two weeks ago and said, “‘I want to come to Atlanta and help you with your fight to try to turn these young people around.’” He added, “These young people are worth saving.”
WHITE JENA TEEN PLEADS GUILTY
Jeremiah Munsen, 18, of Grant Parish, LA, admitted to placing two large nooses on his truck Sep. 20th and driving past a group of marchers gathered at a bus depot in Alexandria, about 35 miles south of Jena, where the march took place in protest of the treatment of the six young, black men now known as the “Jena 6“.
“The defendant used a noose to threaten peaceful civil rights marchers who were in Louisiana to rally against racial intolerance,” said Acting Assistant Attorney General Grace Chung Becker.
Munsen, who faces up to a year in prison, will be sentenced at an August 15 hearing.
CYNTHIA MCKINNEY BELL VERDICT
( Photo: John Bazemore / AP )
Over the weekend, Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney published her thoughts regarding the decision of a judge to acquit three NYC detectives of all charges in the shooting death of Sean Bell.
McKinney writes:
“While we might be outraged at the Sean Bell decision itself, it comes directly from the flawed jurisprudence that gave us the Dred Scott Decision in 1857, Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896, Bakke in 1978, Croson in 1989, Adarand in 1995, Gratz in 2003, and all of the Ward Connerly-inspired attacks on the very same affirmative action hard won by students facing water hoses and dogs; men and women facing jail, lynch mobs and death.”
McKinney mentions other murder victims in NYC that have “defined police-’communities of color’ relations over two generations,” in addition to other cities around the country where blacks have been killed by law enforcement officers.
She adds:
“While the corporate press would have us believe that reporting on what a former Vice Presidential nominee says about a Presidential candidate is a discussion of race, the prospects are that black and brown men and women will continue to be murdered by police officers who, fundamentally, seem scared of black people. That fear apparently extends to the larger community because juries construct ways to let murderous police officers escape just punishment.”
[ Read McKinney's statement in its entirety. ]
The situation about Sean bell is a Very sad Situation. It’s good to see Bill cosby, Chris and others comming together to Support and help the Black Community. If it was up to me That White Boy would be getting more that Just some years in Prison. I dont like these White people that think that they can do anything they can to Us. Racism will not be over in my opinion until A certian Race is off the Earth and i’m not talking Blacks if you know what i mean. Black people need to wake up and know that these White Peckerwoods dont like us and never will. The world is ours and it’s gonna probably be more rasist incidents that will happen like this, Thats why we need to come together…………The white guy needs to get longer than a year!!!!! Racism still Exist
i am so sick of these hate crimes
Read Bill Cosby’s book. I like Chris Tucker.
This is just so sad. But…it is hard to win a case against the police because they stick together. Just like any organization…look at the military. The world is just becoming so sad. Take US for example. If this had of been a post about Beyonce fighting Rihanna…there would be 2000 comments by now…think about it.
Keep up the good work Mr. Cosby!!!
This dream of basic human right being equally guarnateed to all wihout regards to race will be nothing but an illusion to be perusued and never attained. Why? Because Black people are afraid to bleed for what’s right. As long as it hasn’t happened to them or their loved one’s they’re ok with standing on the side lines and see how things play out. But you know what it is only a matter of time before this same brutally blantant act of racism finds itself at your door.
I’m glad Cosby is actually putting some ACTION behind his rants.
is it my computer… but i’m only seeing 9 post…
good job cosby, tucker, and more
I seen nothing wrong with the judge kicking white people out of the court room. He was speaking to the young men as a father figure he didn’t want to make them look bad in front of a group of people who couldn’t and wouldn’t understand.
I know people have always been mad at Bill Cosby but he has always impressed me. Go head Chris and others.
Still mad about the verdict in the Sean Bell case that I get mad every time I think about it.
Wow didn’t even know Cynthia was running…
********* all of this is so true….and no matter wat the Bell boy may or may not have
********guilty of he did not deserve to die (or being shot at 50+ times) this is so
******* reminisent of slavery and the massa not being punished for taking a black life
******* and also reminicsent od all the times in history that blacks were killed trying t******* obtain equal rights….this country is supposed to be the land of the free and
******* just ….however we still today are fighting for equality…this sucks
It just seems like police brutality and harassment will never end and it’s sad that we can’t nip this in the bud now when its people out there dying and suffering behind this unfair system we have in this country.Some things will never change but I have hope.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^to obtain
——–The tension is multiplying. Black people are going to be pushed into a corner
——–where they will be forced to accept the truth. I don’t care how much hand
——–holding they do. I don’t care how many court cases get cited. White people are
——–getting tired of acting.
Wow, I’m glad Cynthia Mckinney commented she definitely spoke the truth.
2 of the police officers involved in the sean bell muder are not not white ! so whay is she pulling the race card? the third one is white ( i think)
i think cops across america need upgraded training on how to maintain their lucidity on tensed situations, sounds to me like so wanna-be-hero-turned-cops are the problem because there is a specific procedure to arrest someone you just cant shoot someone with knowledge of the fact that he`s not armed
many of you have probably not seen the faces of those cops but yet you`re quick to pull the race card ! smh black floks are do predictable
make some research and look for the face of those 3 detectives before you go into whining about racism
This is ridiculous. I’m with PETE. Does anybody else in the world see that two of these officers are black. What does race have to do with anything. Wake up Black America!!! Everytime things don’t go our way we wanna holler racism. Do some research before making stupid comments. Racism does exist
Put yourself in the officer’s position. None of you go out of the house everyday with the thought that you won’t come home to your family at the end of the day. It’s an unfortunate ordeal and I am praying for the Bell family, but these officers aren’t just killing people for the thrill of it. Let’s be real. Something else had to have happened.
Instead of focusing on the negative part, why not pray for both sides and hope that both parties have learned from their mistakes.
Yay for Chris Tucker using his celebrity status to bring focus to larger social issues.
@ #28 PETE (AKA VIBRANT):
You’re a freaking moron. Everyone in America knows that racism is an institutional problem, except guess who? You crackers just kill me. What are you doing here anyhow? F*cking cowards.
————————-@27 & 28
————————-Black and hispanic cops must approach any and all situations with
————————-the same mentality as their white counterparts and superiors. If
————————-they don’t, they will be marked. That is known and furthermore,
————————-when have either one of you ever heard of an unarmed white man
————————-being shot by black officers? I have more respect for the KKK and
————————-the skinheads than some of these closet racist whites and coon,
————————-house negroes. At least they’re honest with themselves.
Well, I have looked at the photos over and over again. I posted when the verdict came out that I am a law enforcement “Professional” who know that this was a case of poor training which led to these officers making a poor decision. However, I strongly disagree that there is no racism at play here. Different community, same events , and I guarantee you a different outcome.
The state of the Black Community is now in a state of emergency! I must say this, although I am sure some may disagree, Bill Cosby and any other person outside of the community can not save these children. What has to happen is the guy who’s “heavy” in the hood right now..I know some of you know this guy! Well it takes him to have a change and began to evoke the change, then and only then can he call for us all to come in the community and help with this change.
I recall a situation where my friends really got tired of speaking and decided to do. They called every positive brother and sister they knew and went to a community and was ready to set up tents and call it hom for summer and was tld within 3 hours of being there that they were making it “HOT” and would be dealt with!! Imagine that!!
I want to add this as well, I know there are people posting here from every walk of life. If you have any idea on what it would take to began a process to fix the problems in our communities, I am ready and willing to go right now, any community for any period of time. Just someone please, please tell me they know how!!!
The Country we live in has not progress in the aspect of race.
I too commend Bill Cosby for what he is doing. Any Black person who tells him to “sit down” needs to seriously readjust their thinking. We have a serious problem in the black community and it is only getting worse. We are losing our black men particularly to crime and prisons. Too many young mothers. Too many young fathers who are walking away from their children. No wisdom being passed down to our young black children. Bill Cosby loves Black people and sadly more than we love ourselves. Many of you have asked re: racism and the Sean Bell case, “when will this end” Well never because unfortunately, a lot of us don’t love or value our own lives. Ask yourself, are you more likely to be killed by black or latino or by a white person?? I’d love to hear your true answers. Cops are going to continue to fear us because we fear “us” I love my people and wish all of the time that things were different for us. We have to start dealing with some truths people. Protests and marches are all good but I would love to see marches and protest when a 4 year old is killed at the hands of a punk ass 16 year old who thinks he’s bad. I want to see this same anger that you are all sharing with the Sean Bell case when your people are being killed on a daily basis at the hands of your own people. I always say to myself, man we, as black people have it really bad because not only do we have to deal with racism just for simply being black, we are also hated by some of our own people. Why do you expect others to value our lives when we don’t value them ourselves???? We need to start having an open ear when Bill Cosby speaks. I truly understand his passion that he has for our people. He’s not singing with the choir and I just think that we don’t like to hear the truth.
umm, i know there are more important things in this post to be concerned about, but my eyes are being violated at this very moment…Bill either suck it or leave the shirt untucked…really. I just couldnt take my eyes off it
BILLY has MADE a LOT of $$$$$$$$$$money off of MAKING BLACK PEOPLE
LOOK IGNORANT AS HELL with his EBONIC spewing CARTOONS FAT
ALBERT and GREEN HORNET ,that’s WHY hes seen as such an HIPPO
(nose)CRIT.
I WANT AN APOLOGY bedee-bedee BROTHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I, understand the anger over the verdict, and the reason to march(even though that doesn’t do jack for any cause), I want to know, where is the fire and passion when black thugs go out and kill each other, and kill innocent people. It’s so easy to pound your fists on desk and scream at the t.v.’s and protest, by why is it that, noone screams injustice when gang members attack, they are the ones marking black men for death. Sure, the cops may be prone to kill innocent black men, and the people’s anger is justified, but let’s protest and boycott those thugs.
it’s ironic how black people wanted to protect Tookie from the Gas Chamber, after he was responsible indirectly for the genocide of a black youths, but want to complain when law enforcement kill a black youth. When in reality, Tookie help create the climate many law enforcement has concerning black youth.
And now we have gangster rappers complaining about the verdict, how concern are they for the black race, they put negative images into the minds of black youths. glamorizing violence, and they have the audacity to be upest over a verdict. in the words of Alanis Morrisett,”Isn’t ironic, don’t ya think?
Even though the white guy was the one who fired the most shots, im not going to blame it on racism because 2 of the 3 cops were black. HOWEVER i believe that Cynthia put it best when she said that the people are fundamentally scared of blacks. Which is what I believe lead those tard-heads to shoot 50 bullets into the car…
But then again some of us black ppl are racists to our own race!!!! I’ve heard countless African Americans say “there’s too many black people around here for me” “black people can’t read” (a black teacher told my class this) and e.t.c. So maybe those 2 black cops did act out of racism… who knows.. i just feel for Sean’s family
I ABSOLUTELY LOVE BILL COSBY!!!!
I guess the Green Party don’t have money to advertise. I never knew this Cynthia chick was running for pres.
#32-you’re right to a certain extent. You can’t just march into a average black “lower class” neighborhood talking about change on a Sunday afternoon. People been smoking blunts and drinking all morning. A black broke crowd can loose their patience real quick. At any rate, you can’t expect a child to even know how to change if no adult is teaching that child. I totally blame the parents for the actions of their children. Back in the day it was like everyone knew that one bad child; now you have like one hundred bad children in one neighborhood. And they’re breeded that way by their parents. Sometime I think we’re dealing with a bunch of crack babies….it’s just that crazy with the young black men in this day.
For the LAST time people, only ONE, I repeat, one cop was black! The other one was Hispanic. Its funny how blacks complain about whites profiling and making assumptions about us base on our skin color, but yet yall do exactly the same thing. Just because dude is darker does not mean he’s black. Don’t get me wrong, at the end of the day, the Europeans will looks at us ALL as undesirables and subordinates. But don’t be so quick to jump to conclusions without knowing your facts first!
@28,
To say that this isn’t a race issue is completely idiotic! Seriously, since when did America give a fuck about a black person’s (or any other of color) life? Millions of Iraqis are loosing their lives because the U.S. invaded THEIR homeland and no one seems to care. So what make you think that White America cares about people of color that loose their life HERE, on land that’s not considered their (minorities) own?
Cosby’s got the right idea, a little personal responsibility. Blaming the white man ain’t gonna stop the murder epidemic going on in Chicago right now. It’s not going to stop our sisters from being the fastest growing group contracting AIDS, nor will it stop our crack and alchool addiction, high blood pressure, diabetes, materialism, giving churches all your damned money and on and on.
If Rev. Wright don’t shut his damned egomaniacal mouth, he’s going to sink Obama’s candidacy.
Initially, I respected Bill Cosby’s message and have always believed in personal responsibility but it can’t be denied how silent he is on police brutality, racial injustice, and the many cases of discrimination that African Americans are experiencing today.
He was mum on Katrina, Don Imus, Jena 6, and now Sean Bell. However, he’s the first one to tell the world how ignorant some black people are and pass it off as “shooting straight from the hip”. You can’t inspire a community that has a negative existence by verbally stoning them repeatedly. The sad part is those who need to listen to his message will tune out.
I think that Bill is saying if we as the Black community would stop having babies out of wedlock and stop waiting for “the Man” to give us something then people would look at the Black community in a different light. If the Black youth would stop trying to dress and act gangster they might earn a little more respect. If you owned a store or was on the street late at night and you saw individuals dressed and acting a certain way how would you feel. Granted, not all youth who dress that way are bad but when you dress and talk gangsta people arent going to look past that. Everyone’s talking about racism but what about racism in the Black community. I am a light skinned black male who has always had some darker blacks treat me bad because of the way that I look.
As for as the situation with the NYPD and Sean Bell, its an unfortunate situation but until you are in the shoes of law enforcement personnel you cant say how you would have reacted. Its not easy making split second decisions when your life is possibly on the line…….Why is everything all about race when something like this happens?
Wht is she doing with her corrupt a__ __ She need to be at the nearest Salon..
I will always beleive that if you give your hearts to God, He will direct your path. Many of us are like lost sheep who have ran away from the Shepard. We need to get back to God. The True God. Why? Because these are the last days.NO GOD NO PEACE.
Period. I pray for the Bell family and my own. I pray that Sean knew Jesus and that he made it into heaven.Because, we do not the time nor the hour when we may die or how we may die, that is why we need to be ready.
I have to make a correction,” we do not know the time nor the hour..”
BILL COSBY IS NOT QUALIFIED TO HELP ANYONE. HE NEEDS HELP HIMSELF. STAY AWAY COSBY. THAT’S THE BEST HELP YOU CAN GIVE.
i find it ironic that rich blacks, who were criticizing and disrespecting poor blacks, all of a sudden switch gears when one of their own, wesley snipes, gets taken down. i think this protest is more about wesley than bell. all of a sudden when one of their own gets locked up, and they need the masses of black people to support them, they are protesting.
i think that the black masses should boycott all these self serving token pompous a-hole former ghetto N word losers who benefited the most from our civil rights movement, and quickly forget where they came from. especially that ignut oprah and bill who have NO RIGHT whatsoever to point their little slimy past ghetto fingers.
Boy looks like Big
You black people are so damn racist!
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