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Comedian's call to action -- 'love, education and care'
Cosby brings message of accountability to Bayview-Hunters Point
Heather Knight, Chronicle Staff Writer
Friday, December 10, 2004
Bill Cosby visited a San Francisco school Thursday to rail against what he considers the culture of victimization in low-income African American communities, telling parents they must invest in their children's education before they wind up teenage moms, jail inmates, drug dealers -- or dead.
Cosby's remarks -- made during a tour of a revamped elementary school in the poverty-stricken Bayview-Hunters Point neighborhood -- came seven months after he sparked a firestorm with a speech imploring African American parents to take responsibility for the large percentage of their children who drop out before high school graduation.
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