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Comedian Bill Cosby wants black Americans to follow the example of civil rights leaders in improving their neighborhoods and reaching out for higher education.
"These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we`ve got these knuckleheads walking around," he said Monday evening at an NAACP gala commemorating the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision 50 years earlier.
"Take the neighborhood back," Cosby said, chiding parents who do not take an active role in caring for their children.
Cosby and his wife, Camille, were honored for their philanthropy in donating money to historically black colleges.
Former President Carter, Black Enterprise magazine founder Earl G. Graves, former California Democratic Rep. Augustus Hawkins and Ruby Bridges, who helped desegregate New Orleans schools as a first-grader in 1960, also received awards at the celebration.
Kweisi Mfume, president of the NAACP, called the Brown decision "a rare moment of accomplishment that helped move our nation toward achievement of its ideals." He added, though, that more needs to be done to prevent segregation in schools today.
The families of attorneys, plaintiffs and Supreme Court justices who participated in the Brown ruling were honored at the gala. It was hosted by the NAACP, the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund and Howard University.
In one of the lighter moments, comedian Dick Gregory pretended to run off with the medal he presented to Cosby.
"This is what happens when they get old," Cosby joked of Gregory.
Source: AP
"These people marched and were hit in the face with rocks to get an education and now we`ve got these knuckleheads walking around," he said Monday evening at an NAACP gala commemorating the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision 50 years earlier.
"Take the neighborhood back," Cosby said, chiding parents who do not take an active role in caring for their children.
Cosby and his wife, Camille, were honored for their philanthropy in donating money to historically black colleges.
Former President Carter, Black Enterprise magazine founder Earl G. Graves, former California Democratic Rep. Augustus Hawkins and Ruby Bridges, who helped desegregate New Orleans schools as a first-grader in 1960, also received awards at the celebration.
Kweisi Mfume, president of the NAACP, called the Brown decision "a rare moment of accomplishment that helped move our nation toward achievement of its ideals." He added, though, that more needs to be done to prevent segregation in schools today.
The families of attorneys, plaintiffs and Supreme Court justices who participated in the Brown ruling were honored at the gala. It was hosted by the NAACP, the NAACP Legal and Educational Defense Fund and Howard University.
In one of the lighter moments, comedian Dick Gregory pretended to run off with the medal he presented to Cosby.
"This is what happens when they get old," Cosby joked of Gregory.
Source: AP