Yeah, that is rather striking. I've also been seeing the comments that:
1. The women are all out for his money.
2. They're all white, so they're all lying. (P.S. if it matters, they are not all white.)
3. They're old, and seeking attention. (Why being old would make one seek attention is not explained.)
4. The women came onto him, were rebuffed, and are now angry.
5. He's being attacked because he's a political conservative. (This definition of his politics is not precisely accurate, IMO, based on a number of statements I've heard him make, but people need to dig a little deeper than certain speeches he gave awhile back.) Even if he were, it's a darned silly idea that "the left is out to get him, so these stories are false." IMO.
1. No. If all the women were out for Cosby's money
his attorneys would be in court battling
their attorneys.
2. Correct.
They are not all White.
3. Many of the women are older
, but at 77, Cosby is much older than all of the women and certainly was when he was accused of raping or sexually assaulting them.
The ages of Cosby's accusers are not relevant and neither is their race.
4. Ah, the sexually aggressive, status-seeking, career-promoting, hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-woman-scorned starfucker line of attack, eh? Yeah, well that's a possibility. There are certainly women and men in the entertainment industry willing to do whatever it takes with whomever it takes to advance their own rise in the business. Easy accessibility to women has always been one of the perks of being a power broker and one does not always have to pursue to catch. Sometimes the hunter is captured by the game.
Yet even if each and every one of these women whom are coming forward is the scheming scam artist a Cosby apologist would paint them as, there still is no excuse for rape.
Having a drink is not implying,
"Because you gave me a drink it's okay to rape me." Going into a man's room is not consenting,
"I came to your room so it's okay to rape me." Working with a man who can possibly make or break your career is not a green light that says, "
You could be very good for my career or very bad for my career and I want you to be good for my career, so it's okay to rape me."
Number Four is basic Blaming the Victim 101 and suggests they are trying to turn their victimization into opportunity. This should be dismissed without a second thought.
5. This is a bit complicated. Bill Cosby is not a conservative in the political sense as a Ben Carson, Thomas Sowell or Clarence Thomas is.
Cosby is a cultural conservative in how he has publicly put the Black community on blast for what he perceives as their wayward ways.
When Bill Cosby puts you on blast,
he lets the bullets fly.
50 percent drop out rate, I'm telling you, and people in jail, and women having children by five, six different men. Under what excuse, I want somebody to love me, and as soon as you have it, you forget to parent. Grandmother, mother, and great grandmother in the same room, raising children, and the child knows nothing about love or respect of any one of the three of them. All this child knows is “gimme, gimme, gimme.” These people want to buy the friendship of a child....and the child couldn't care less. Those of us sitting out here who have gone on to some college or whatever we've done, we still fear our parents. And these people are not parenting. They're buying things for the kid. $500 sneakers, for what? They won't buy or spend $250 on Hooked on Phonics.
Are you not paying attention, people with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn't that a sign of something, or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up. Isn't it a sign of something when she's got her dress all the way up to the crack...and got all kinds of needles and things going through her body. What part of Africa did this come from? We are not Africans. Those people are not Africans, they don't know a damned thing about Africa. With names like Shaniqua, Shaligua, Mohammed and all that crap and all of them are in jail. When we give these kinds names to our children, we give them the strength and inspiration in the meaning of those names. What's the point of giving them strong names if there is not parenting and values backing it up.
Brown Versus the Board of Education is no longer the white person's problem. We've got to take the neighborhood back. We've got to go in there. Just forget telling your child to go to the Peace Corps. It's right around the corner. It's standing on the corner. It can't speak English. It doesn't want to speak English. I can't even talk the way these people talk. “Why you ain't where you is go, ra,” I don't know who these people are. And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. Then I heard the father talk. This is all in the house. You used to talk a certain way on the corner and you got into the house and switched to English. Everybody knows it's important to speak English except these knuckleheads. You can't land a plane with “why you ain't...” You can't be a doctor with that kind of crap coming out of your mouth. There is no Bible that has that kind of language. Where did these people get the idea that they're moving ahead on this. Well, they know they're not, they're just hanging out in the same place, five or six generations sitting in the projects when you're just supposed to stay there long enough to get a job and move out.
Cosby didn't go on Fox News or right-wing radio to wag his finger. He went to the NAACP convention and Black colleges preaching the gospel of
"respectability politics" a popular way for members of a group to self-police other members of the group. Chris Rock and Barack Obama have also been singled out as practitioners of respectability politics.
This explains the schadenfreude felt by some Black intellectuals, thought-shapers and in the hip-hop community toward Cosby's current plight.
"This old man is raggin' on me for my sagging pants, but at least I'm not drugging and raping women."
The ambivalence that the accusations against Bill Cosby stirs in White people is amplified and magnified for Black people. Cosby has been a success story, a man of respect, a huge supporter of HBCU's and a philanthropist who has given millions to education and charity.
You'll have to excuse me if I take no joy as an old man's secrets come back to haunt him. Maybe it's appropriate for Cosby to die a slow death of a thousand cuts, but it's not any fun.
Cosby is unlikely to ever see the inside of a courtroom to answer for his crimes. The statue of limitations has passed and so has the opportunity to gather physical evidence. If justice means a perp walk and a striped jumpsuit for the funny man, that's not happening.
The absolute worst punishment for a man who can buy anything he wants is to take something from him he can't buy back. His reputation.
No matter what Bill Cosby does in his remaining years his name will be associated with rape.