Judge Marvin Arrington & His "Bill Cosby Moment"

PlezWorld, a black moderate-liberal Democratic blog, opines: "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports that Fulton Superior Court Judge Marvin Arrington [pictured above] routinely uses his sentencing day - on Thursdays - as a time to speak his mind to offenders who come before him for sentencing. On last Thursday, he went one step further: he had about 50 defendants (all of whom were Black) and he asked all of the white people in the room to leave before he addressed them. Arrington said that for him it was just a 'Bill Cosby moment' in which he delivered a harsh indictment that bad behavior in poorer black neighborhoods was an albatross on black advancement. Unlike Cosby, who has received some criticism among blacks for delivering such messages, Arrington received a standing ovation from the defendants and their families after his 10-minute talk."

PlezWorld, who personally knows Judge Arrington, continues: "[I] applaud him for reminding these young Black men that they are not only a strain on society, but they are also a cancer within the Black community. [I]nstead of heading to jail, all fifty of those guys should've been in a classroom or at a job! [E]ach one of those guys are exactly what's wrong with the Black community. [I] do not applaud his methods. [W]hat he had to say - no matter how humiliating it may seem - needed to be heard by everyone: white, Black, asian, latino, etc. [W]e can no longer let the worst examples of our community skate into the obscurity of our prison system. [E]veryone needs to know that [J]udge [A]rrington and plezWorld does not condone or tolerate the behavior of our Black men that continues to keep our community down. [I] only hope that more of our Black leaders have 'Bill Cosby moments' and tell the world what we think about those who continue to destroy our community."