At a rally attended by Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton on Saturday, comedian and actor Bill Cosby urged residents of hurricane-ravaged New Orleans to “cleanse” themselves from the city’s history of crime, violence, drugs and teen pregnancies.
Cosby told the crowd, “It’s painful, but we can’t cleanse ourselves unless we look at the wound. 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. What kind of a village is that?”
Cosby told 2,000 people in front of the Convention Center of his desire for the city’s society to have an “extreme make-over.”