The sharks are circling, there is blood in the water, this is huge. An American Icon is about to fall.
Bill Cosby was America’s dad. Largely because of the NBC 1980’s hit, the Cosby show.
Reports are that multiple women have come forward claiming that Cosby now 77, have drugged and had inappropriate sexual contact with them. Thus far Bill Cosby have refused to comment on the allegations.
These allegations have dogged Cosby for years. In 1977 Cosby confessed to an extra-martial affair with a woman named Shawn Upshaw . Upshaw claimed that her daughter Autum Jackson was Cosby’s child. Paternity of Jackson was never proven. Upshaw later spent two years in Prison for trying to extort money from the Comedian.
Andrea Constand, the former director of operations of Temple University’s women’s basketball program, sued the comedian, claiming he slipped her “herbal medication” for stress when she visited his Philadelphia mansion in 2004.
After taking the “medication,” she said Cosby touched her breasts and genitals and sexually assaulted her. Constand had met Cosby several years earlier and considered him a mentor but when she contacted officials, the district attorney declined to press charges. At the time, Cosby’s lawyer calls the accusation “utterly preposterous.”
In 2006 Constand and 13 other women filed a law suit against the Cos, the suit was settled out of court for an undisclosed sum of money.Unfortunately for Cosby the allegations seem to be intensifying, not going away. Now there is a growing list of women who claim that they too were drugged and assaulted by Cosby.
♦California lawyer Tamara Green, who had appeared on the “Today Show” in 2005 alleging that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted her in the 1970s in a fashion similar to the one Constand alleges.
♦In 2005, Beth Ferrier claims she had a sexual relationship with Cosby — who has been married for 50 years to wife Camille — which she said ended after he allegedly drugged and groped her.
♦Barbara Bowman, tells Philadelphia magazine that Cosby threw her on a bed and attempted to forcefully disrobe her as she yelled and begged him to stop.
♦Another accuser, Joan Tarshis, comes forward on November 16, claiming Cosby drugged and assaulted her twice in 1969. Two days later, former supermodel Janice Dickinson says Cosby drugged and raped her in 1982.
Women seem to be coming out of the woodwork, all claiming that Cosby drugged and sexually assaulted them. Tv Networks have begun to take notice, shows are being cancelled and all because Black Comedian Hannibal Burris said this in his routine in October.
“It’s even worse because Bill Cosby has the f – king smuggest old black man public persona that I hate,” Burress, who is also black, tells a crowd. “‘ Pull your pants up, black people. I was on TV in the ’80s. I can talk down to you because I had a successful sitcom.’ Yeah, but you raped women, Bill Cosby. So, brings you down a couple notches. ‘I don’t curse on stage.’ Well, yeah, you’re a rapist, so, I’ll take you sayin’ lots of motherf — ers on Bill Cosby: Himself if you weren’t a rapist.”
The feeding frenzy has begun, many in the media and around social media are salivating about this massive take-down , after all it’s the American way right? Build them up ‚then take them down?
We make no judgement call, we just have one observation.
Since Mister Cosby hasn’t yet been convicted of anything. Could you please stop with the use of the old haggard-looking, bearded, convict-resembling portrait ? We do get the subliminal message you are sending.
Oh, one more thing, those of you American blacks who despise Bill Cosby, you don’t hate him because you know that he is guilty of any crime. You hate him because he tells you about yourselves and you resent that. Some of you would rather sit and make excuses rather than get up and make a way for you and your families.
Whether Bill Cosby is guilty or not, does not render his criticisms any less true. We will withhold judgement on Bill Cosby until the facts are properly aired in a court of law, if at all.