Bill Cosby, What the Frick?

Quote: Wizard

I don't think a racial issue needs to be made out of it.

It's a racial issue if you're black.
They are totally aware of Cosby's
race, where most whites don't
really think about Cosby that way.
I remember him for his comedy
and his Jello and Coke commercials..

He made dozens of these over
the years and made dozens of
millions doing it.

Quote: Wizard

Jim Baker and Jerry Falwell. I don't think a racial issue needs to be made out of it.

I never would of thought, of doing so.

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However, one name you'll never hear even hear a rumor of doing bad is Fred Rogers.

I had to look it up, I didn't recall Falwell doing anything really illegal,

Quote: Evenbob

It's a racial issue if you're black.

I can't speak for the black side of this, but I have never known own black person to even talk about Cosby before the accusations started to fly. Let's keep in mind that I lived in or near Woodlawn Maryland for ten years.

In my own opinion, Cosby seemed to go for a white audience.

Now that I think about, when I was in training for my job at Social Security I said a negative thing about the Cosby Show and a black woman in my class got rather defensive about it. That is the only connection I can think of.

Quote: petroglyph

I had to look it up, I didn't recall Falwell doing anything really illegal,

Sorry, I meant Jimmy Swaggart. My apologies to Jerry.

Quote: Wizard

Now that I think about, when I was in training for my job at Social Security I said a negative thing about the Cosby Show and a black woman in my class got rather defensive about it. .

That's what I mean. Whites didn't think
about Cosby's race, but his fellow Blacks
were totally aware of it and proud of him.
He came from real poverty, his mom did
other peoples laundry and he shared a
bed with 4 siblings. And he made himself
a millionaire and a worldwide household
name on talent alone.

Quote: Evenbob

And he made himself a millionaire and a worldwide household name on talent alone.

Luck, speech writers, script writers and public relations types had nothing to do with it?

Quote: Fleastiff

Luck, speech writers, script writers and public relations types had nothing to do with it?

Not really. He wrote his own comedy
routines that made him a star. His
mega talent is what propelled him.
He had an uncanny ability to make
people like him, and we did. America
loved the Cos..

I just read some articles on why men
do date rape, which Cosby did. Using
a drug to subdue a woman and
then forcing sex on them without
their consent.

Men who do this never consider
themselves rapists. They often
blame the woman for 'turning
them on' and forcing them to
do it.

This might be Cosby. Unpopular
with the girls he liked in high
school, and overly narcissistic.
They carry a grudge, and when
successful and more powerful
in their carreer, they act out their
hostility from all the rejection,
by using date rape.

Cosby had fame and money, he
could do date rape on steroids.
They never look at it as being
wrong or even their fault. It's
something that really arouses
them, getting back at all the
women that rejected them.

They become addicted to it, which
Cosby obviously was. There has
to be an underlying reason, having
sex with a comatose woman sounds
not appealing at all.

Quote: Wizard

In my own opinion, Cosby seemed to go for a white audience.

I was under the impression that Cosby wanted his audience to be color blind. I Spy (September 15, 1965 – April 15, 1968) broke ground in that it was the first American television drama to feature a black actor (Cosby) in a lead role. Robert Culp revealed in his audio commentary on the DVD release that he and Cosby agreed early on that "Our statement is a non-statement". Race was never acknowledged in the series.

The population in 1960 was:
179,323,175 Total
158,831,732 White
18,871,831 Black

Quote: Pacomartin

I was under the impression that Cosby wanted his audience to be color blind. I Spy (September 15, 1965 – April 15, 1968) broke ground in that it was the first American television drama to feature a black actor (Cosby) in a lead role. Robert Culp revealed in his audio commentary on the DVD release that he and Cosby agreed early on that "Our statement is a non-statement". Race was never acknowledged in the series.

I was 16 when I Spy came on and we
were awed that Cosby was on it.
America already knew him as a
hilarious comic we all loved and
to see him on TV was terrific. We
had spent hours listening to his
albums over and over. I really think
if he had been a nobody black actor,
it wouldn't have been put on the air.

Knew this was coming. He's gotta
wear the ankle device.

A judge is confining Bill Cosby to his suburban Philadelphia home until the comedian is sentenced on sexual assault charges.
Cosby must also wear a GPS monitoring device under the order issued Friday by Judge Steven O'Neill.
The judge had suggested Thursday after Cosby was convicted of three counts of aggravated indecent assault that he would be allowed to move around Montgomery County, where his home is located.
The modified order says can leave his house only to meet with his lawyers or to get medical treatment but must get permission before doing so.