Conversations We Need to Have | Dear Black America
So let’s start out with my just being real clear here: FUCK Bill Cosby. Just in case you had questions as to where I stand on most things related to B.C. Now that I have made perfectly clear that I will not hold anything back on this one, let us get to the real conversation I want to have here.
Saying that White People are trying to bring Cosby down is an insult to all the blacks who have in fact been targeted. And here is why. See Bill has admitted to rape. He might not want to call it that but I don’t care what he wants to call drugging a woman so that she can be induced into having sex with him. It is rape. He is a rapist. I call him a rapist because his own words confirm that he is, in fact, a person who has used drugs in order to take away another person’s ability to resist him having sex with them. So don’t dare say anything about my choice of words because he is a RAPIST.
I am amazed to see members of our community still supporting a rapist and, even worse, the screams that somehow this is an attempt by White America to bring down a “good” man. Now I am sure there are white people who love the idea that he has been exposed, so they can hold him up as some sort of father figure for our community.
To support him is to support a culture that tells women they aren’t valued. It is telling every woman around you that, even in the face of his own admission, you believe that if they don’t say NO then they are consenting.
http://variety.com/2015/biz/news/bill-cosby-admits-to-drugging-women-for-sex-report-1201534649/
So let’s have a conversation about my other big issue with Bill Cosby, which comes from an article which I will link to below. Feel free to read it, cause if you aren’t familiar with his comment in it, my comments aren’t going to mean much to you.
No, really, I’ll be here when you’re done. Trust me, you have to read it in order to understand my outrage.
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First of all, Bill Cosby didn’t tell a single truth to blacks in this article. All he manage to do was show how disconnected he was from poor black America and give people outside of our community someone to point to and say “Well a black guy said it too”. So let’s address the bullshit he states like facts.
He asked where were the parents when they were younger — before they were standing in court in an orange suit. Well Bill, likely they were working more than one job, attempting to put food on the table, because our country thinks that a living wage is too much to ask.
Let’s be honest, these parents aren’t likely the ones buying their children $500 sneakers. If they aren’t buying them because they have access to money from questionable means then they are being bought by people who want them doing questionable things. I have never known a poor parent to spend $500 on shoes but I have known a few who were too busy working to stay on top of their kids 24/7.
So you don’t like younger people’s fashion. What are you doing to really help those communities other than judging them? Yes, you write nice checks to help those of them who have good grades go to college; checks that come with lots of strings attached, as confirmed by former administrators of HBC’s. What about before they get to that point? When they are still students who can’t focus on school because they are hungry and worried about where the next meal will come from. Where was all your righteous fury then, when you could have had an even bigger impact on the road they would walk down?
Your actions tell me all about what you really think of women, so honestly, I am not going to bother to address your comments about baby daddies and what not. Sentence #2 of the article covers this one for me.
People can’t choose their names and since when is holding someone’s name against them within reason? This is where you should check out “Dear Raven-Symone, Sincerely Watermelondrea”. Tre’ says it better than I have here.
So, in closing, let’s talk about that higher bar he seems to think we need to hold OTHER members of our community too. I agree that we should hold members of our community who could be doing more to empower those without to higher standards. We should hold our men to a higher standard of respecting women and teach them that unless she says clearly, “YES”, she is saying, “NO”. We should teach them empathy for those who we may not understand but we could do more to help, rather than teaching them to judge others.
Okay, that is all I got to say on this matter.
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